[1] The NHF is based in California and describes its mission as protecting individuals' rights to use dietary supplements and alternative therapies without government restriction.
Hart founded the NHF to ensure free expression of health alternatives as well as disagreeing with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration compelling his company to cease marketing FDA non-authorized devices for medical treatment.
The organization has promoted claims that under certain conditions vaccines were dangerous, fought to market untested and unproven health products,[3] and lobbied against water fluoridation.
It has membership in 22 countries and has observer status at meetings of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the highest international body on food standards.
[3] Several independent sources have described the National Health Federation as a fringe lobbying group or as a promoter of dubious and unproven medical claims and devices.