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Local chapters and companies sponsor culinary competitions, and must order their award medals from this national association. Medals are inventoried by the national association. Driving issue here is that those holding the competitions never know how many competitors they will draw, so they typically order the maximum number of medals based on the categories of competitions they're holding, and then return any unused medals following the competition.