Oregon Center for Environmental Health
The mission of the Oregon Center for Environmental Health is to protect public health and the environment by promoting alternatives to the use, manufacture, release and disposal of toxic chemicals.
Oregon Tilth is a partner in the Oregon Center for Environmental Health’s Healthy Food in Healthcare initiative, which employs market-based forces to increase demand for sustainably produced foods, improve hospital food quality, and bolster the local economy. The principal goal of the project is to leverage the significant purchasing power and influence of hospitals to support regional markets for fresh, sustainable food, and to model healthy food choices to the public.
The Oregon Center for Environmental Health is a non-profit, member-based organization that was founded in 1996 by a group of Oregonians who saw the need for a statewide organization dedicated to reducing and eliminating toxic chemicals that are long lasting and build up in living tissues, threatening the health and reproductive viability of humans and wildlife.
The Center's Healthy Food for a Healthy Environment initiative aims to create a significant shift in the cycle of food production by leveraging the purchasing power of large institutions to support local and regional markets for healthier and more ecologically-friendly food, including produce free of toxic pesticides, meat products produced without non-therapeutic antibiotics, and dairy products that are free of growth hormones, and other products from environmentally responsible farms.
