About the Authors

Scott T. Minton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

sminton@nordicnaturals.com

Affiliation Department of Research, Nordic Naturals, Inc., Watsonville, California, United States of America

Anthony L. Almada

Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony L. Almada, Joseph L. Evans, Maggie Laidlaw, Joar Opheim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Vitargo Global Sciences, Inc., Dana Point, California, United States of America

Joseph L. Evans

Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony L. Almada, Joseph L. Evans, Maggie Laidlaw, Joar Opheim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation P and N Development Ventures, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Maggie Laidlaw

Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony L. Almada, Joseph L. Evans, Maggie Laidlaw, Joar Opheim

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutrasource Diagnostics Inc., Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Joar Opheim

Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony L. Almada, Joseph L. Evans, Maggie Laidlaw, Joar Opheim

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Department of Research, Nordic Naturals, Inc., Watsonville, California, United States of America

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