Blood Metals Panel

Overview:

Blood Metals Panel

Quicksilver Scientific is a CLIA certified laboratory offering mercury speciation and blood metal testing for human health. We use state-of-the-art testing technology, including patented mercury speciation technology, to give the most accurate and reliable metal testing availability today. The Blood Metals Panel screens a broad range of nutrient and toxic metals to show elevated exposures to toxic metals or imbalances of nutrient metals in the whole blood.

Blood Collection
DO NOT eat seafood or fish products for 72 hours prior to collecting your blood sample. Fish oils are OK.
(Please note, for patients doing the Mercury Tri-Test – your urine and blood samples must be taken within 48 hours of each other.)

What you will need:

•    EDTA preserved vacutainer blood tube(s) – has rounded bottom and dark blue cap
•    Sample label(s)
•    Absorbent cloth(s)
•    Biohazard zip-top specimen bag

•    Fill tube at least halfway (minimum 2 mL per tube) **We only need 1 blood sample for the Mercury Tri-Test or 1 blood sample for the Blood Metals Panel. If you are doing both tests, we need 2 samples.**
•    Wrap the tube in the absorbent cloth provided and place the wrapped tube into the biohazard zip-top bag.

DO NOT spin down or freeze blood.  No ice packs are needed for shipping. If you aren’t shipping the sample back to us on the day it is drawn, please store it in the refrigerator.

**Available in the US only**