The Green Lipped Mussels are grown at the north tip of New Zealand's south island in the Marlborough Sounds. Here, all mussel farming and processing is strictly controlled by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF). This ensures that the mussels conform to the highest standards.
The mussels are suspended from long lines attached to buoys. They take about one year to grow to the desired length of 80mm (3.2 inches). Then they are carefully harvested from dawn to mid afternoon and hand sorted aboard a harvesting barge. This is the first stage of quality control.
The mussels are rushed to port to make sure the crucial lipids are protected. A fully laden harvesting barge can carry up to 80 tons of fresh mussels.
The mussels are stabilized and freeze dried using a patented process that enables the anti-inflammatory compounds to be effectively captured. To prevent the oxidation of important lipids within the mussel, this happens within 24 hours of arrival.
Freeze drying, also known as lyophilizing, removes moisture from the mussel under vacuum without the use of heat. The dried mussel flesh takes the shape of a thin biscuit with a moisture content of less than 2%.
The mussel is then ground to a fine powder in a humidity-controlled room and then packed into heat sealed aluminum bags. The resulting powder is then shipped to a factory for the extraction of Omega Harmony's active ingredient.
To ensure quality, the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries regulates the plant on behalf of the EU authorities.
Omega Harmony's is derived from the Green Lipped Mussel powder by super critical fluid extraction (SFE). All stabilized mussel powder is shipped to Germany to Flavex Naturextrakte, an internationally recognized leader in this extraction process.
The main Omega Harmony ingredient is a unique combination of non-polar lipid groups and rare omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids from the Green Lipped Mussel, perna canaliculus.
But Omega Harmony should never be confused with the numerous other powder-based Green Lipped Mussel products. This is because without undergoing the revolutionary extraction and stabilization process, the lipids within the mussel can easily oxidize from exposure to heat and oxygen, degrade and lose all their beneficial properties.
"The effects of all processing steps, including raw product selection, harvesting, storage, refining, manufacturing and distribution, on the quality of lipids in the final commodity are considerable."
- JB German, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California.
Only with this patented stabilization process are marine lipids protected from the effects of oxidation. This process also leaves no chemical residues. Furthermore, it eliminates all the protein or the mussel, which could otherwise trigger shellfish allergies.
To ensure quality, the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries regulates the plant on behalf of the EU authorities.
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