OmegaQuant is an independent, CLIA-certified lab that offers nutritional status testing to researchers, clinicians and the public. OmegaQuant performs analysis in Sioux Falls, SD, for commercial and academic research collaborators, and for consumers interested in monitoring their nutritional status in both blood and breast milk. Its goal is to offer the highest quality fatty acid analytical services to researchers and to provide simple tests of nutritional status to consumers, with the ultimate purpose of advancing the science and use of certain nutrients to improve health. Internationally, OmegaQuant works with lab partners based in Australia and the UK. In the UK, it has a partnership with the University of Stirling, based in the Scotland, to help process blood samples from Europe.
Bill Harris, the President of OmegaQuant, and Clemens von Schacky, a cardiologist from Germany, came up with the idea of the Omega-3 Index based on research connecting higher omega-3 levels with lower risk of cardiovascular disease. In 2004 Harris and Von Schacky proposed that the Omega-3 Index met the criteria to be a new risk factor for cardiovascular disease in a paper that has since been cited in over 700 research papers. Over 200 published papers have used the Omega-3 Index methodology, furthering our knowledge of the role of omega-3s in heart health.
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- Testing Laboratory