The Founder, Dr Warwick D Raymont, was born in Jamestown, South Australia to a Banker and his Wife.
His early education was at a number of Schools and High Schools as his family moved around and he Matriculated to the University of Adelaide in 1957 (the year he gained his Queen's Scout award) and studied a variety of subjects before being deployed to Malaya in late 1960. Returning in late 1961, he changed his studies to Science and Education and taught out a three-year Teaching Bond at South Australian Catholic and Independent Schools until the end of 1965 when he was Science Master at Blackfriars Priory School.
It was at this point that he moved directly into Research, his greatest love, and commenced his PhD studies by Distance Education with the University of San Moritz in London, his local Supervisors being Prof Don Stranks at the Universioty of Adelaide and, later, Prof Harry Bloom of the University of Tasmania.
His Research was somewhat parallel to his employment with Dairy Analytical Laboratories both in Adelaide and later in Tasmania and he completed his Doctoral Dissertation, "The Origin and the Fate of the Organochlorine Pesticide in the Aquatic Environment" at the end of 1969 and it was accepted after his defending it against Prof Stork on Columbia University, New York in 1970. This qualified him for Membership of the American Chemical Society.
His work in Tasmania on Pesticide Residues and the Environment quickly gained him the reputation as "the Ralph Nader of Tasmania" - he was also very prominent in his opposition to the flouridation of drinking water supplies.
A change of the Australian Federal Government in 1972 saw him return to teaching Science and Maths in High Schools in outh Australia until, in 1977, he was accepted to a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in New York where he continued the work of Prof Harry Bloom on the relationship between trace Cadmium residues and the deposition of cholesterol in coronary arteries. Returning to Australia in 1979, he continued his research into means of chelating the Cadmuim from these residues and he began receiving a numbewr of prestigious awards, mostly from overseas.
The Doctor of Science degee was conferred upon him in 1989 by City University Los Angeles and he was elected to Membership of the prestigious New York Academy of Sciences in 1992. From 1994 he began appearing as a biographee in Who's Who in Science and Engineering and Who's Who in the World for the next decade and more - as well as being the recipient of a number of other international awards. In 2007 he even completed another Master's degree in Science and Technonlgy Commercialisation at the University of Adelaide.
Over his life he has been a frequent presenter at a number of Medical, Scientific and Environmental conferences around the world, the most recent in Bangkok in 2016.
Finally, in 2019, he was awarded Gold Membership of the American Chemical Society in recognition of fifty years of service.
Professionally, his focus has been on Human and Environmental Health to the extent that he has also been appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences at CULA.
Socially, he continues his life-long dedication to assisting new migrants to Australia and has learned several other languages to assist him in this voluntary work, work that has seen him gaining a number of awards and recognitions.
His commitment remains:
1. to providing Australia and the World with a complete and comprehensive, yet compact, range of Natural, Health Care and Nutritional Products and
2. to keep these products the very best by monitoring continuously the latest international Scientific, Medicasl and Historical Research,
3. to the exclusion of drugs, animal products and animal testing from these Products and
4. to the Products remaining, where possible, Australian formulated, Australian made and Australian owned.
His life dedication is
1. to the needs of people living in an incresingly polluted environment,
2. to creating public awareness of these needs by disseminating accurate information,
3. to educating people to discriminate between fact and fantasy in the Health Care field and
4. to enable people to take increasing responsibility in the management of their own health.
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