The accolades for USANA's products and financial opportunity just keep coming! Most recently, USANA was featured in a special Olympic commemorative edition of African American Sports Magazine and recognized for its commitment to community, health, and financial freedom.

You can read what Arif Khatib, president of the African American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame, wrote about USANA below. To order your own copy of African American Sports Magazine, go to the organization's Web site at www.afrosportshall.com and click on News.

Hall of Fame Partners with USANA Health Sciences
By Arif Khatib

African American Sports Magazine

In keeping with its history of identifying companies that demonstrate a sense of community, the African American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame has partnered with USANA Health Sciences, a company that promotes good health and financial freedom.

That's everyone's dream. USANA provides both!

USANA Health Sciences produces the highest quality nutritional and personal care products available. Whether it's a complete, balanced spectrum of nutrients and antioxidants to protect our bodies from free radicals or science-based personal care products that replenish and rejuvenate skin and hair, USANA Health Sciences has it all!

USANA Health Sciences was founded in 1992 and successfully navigated through those critical first five years - a period in which over 90 percent of new companies fail. USANA has been rated among the fastest growing companies traded on the NASDAQ since July 1996. Between 1995 and 2000, USANA's 39% growth rate placed the company among the top 100 profitable companies on the NASDAQ stock market (among companies with over $100 million in revenue.)

A consistently solid financial performer, the company has shown a profit in each year of its existence. Since its inception, the USANA customer base has steadily grown to over 160,000 health-conscious, entrepreneurial-minded individuals.

USANA sponsored 12 Olympic legends with their hotel accommodations at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Sacramento, California, when the Hall of Fame held its induction ceremony in July.

"USANA has always and will continue to have a community presence while providing the best nutritional products money can buy," says Brett Blake, Vice President of Marketing.

When I visited the plant in Utah this summer as a member of its Sports Advisory Board, I found it to be one of the most modern and well-run companies in the world. They lead the industry in product testing.

"Poor manufacturing can destroy great science," says Mark Wilson, Vice President of Customer Relations. "For that reason, USANA Health Sciences is one of the few companies in its industry to manufacture its own products," Wilson said.

While touring the facility, AAESHOF was assured that the formulas developed in its laboratories are produced consistently for the customer. USANA voluntarily meets Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for pharmaceutical-grade products. These standards are much higher than required by law and eclipse those followed by most nutritional product manufacturers.

To adhere to these exacting standards, USANA tests the raw ingredients, tests the product during manufacturing, and tests every product again before it is shipped. USANA's quality assurance team keeps track of every excruciating detail, (I know, because I had to submit to a rigid health code before entering the plant) from the elaborate testing and evaluations of raw materials to the storage and shipping of finished products.

I am proud to say I am a regular user of USANA's products along with millions throughout the world.