Arkansas Genomics, LLC Achieves Accreditation

July 6, 2012 - PRLog -- Arkansas Genomics, Arkansas’ only private DNA laboratory, celebrates its newly earned accreditation through the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board.  Arkansas Genomics is certified to the ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard and Forensic Requirements for Accreditation (FRA- 1:2008/1 and FRAG- 5:2009/1.) The news is already spreading quickly through legal and investigative agencies at the state and national level; Arkansas Genomics offers a high-tech solution for crime labs across the nation facing backlogs in DNA testing, as well as thousands of individuals seeking finality in paternal and other lineage matters.

“Arkansas Genomics is proud of earning this recognition from ANSI-ASQ,” says Arkansas Genomics founding partner Jimmy Threet.  “We spent countless lab hours over the past year testing and validating our procedures since the accreditation process requires the very highest standard of excellence. We are committed to upholding that standard for our current and future clients.”

Backed by a team with a combined experience of over 60 years, Arkansas Genomics is already competing for state contracts for DNA testing services and preparing home-testing kits for private individuals.

“Our mission is to back the justice system in being swifter and more certain.  We recognize some of the most emotional situations and questions that haunt people can be answered with certainty under the microscope in a precision lab like Arkansas Genomics,” Threet continued.

The accreditation allows the lab to be recognized internationally and Arkansas Genomics plans to provide testing for entities in Africa, Asia, Europe and more in the future.

For more information on their testing services, please contact Arkansas Genomics at (877) DNA-LAB1 (877-362-5221) or visit  www.ArkansasGenomics.com.

Arkansas Genomics’ accreditation and scope certificate can be viewed online...

About Arkansas Genomics:
Arkansas Genomics is the state’s first and only private DNA laboratory, offering support to State and Local Crime Labs with reduction of forensic backlogged DNA samples.  AG offers assistance with convicted offender/post-conviction and arrestee DNA testing, including criminal and civil casework. Arkansas Genomics will also perform paternity testing for Child Support Enforcement Divisions (CSED,) immigration services and for wills and probate purposes.
Arkansas Genomics mission is to offer full confidence to law enforcement agencies and attorneys that the latest scientific evidence and answers are represented in their presentation of DNA related cases.
About Jimmy Threet:
Arkansas Genomics Founder Jimmy Threet has had extensive training in Microscopy techniques with emphasis on hair, bone and muscle tissue recognition and identification.  The results of some of his scientific research have been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Women’s Health. He has a Master’s degree in Forensic Science, specializing in DNA and Serology. Mr. Threet has over fifteen years of laboratory experience, at both the State and Federal Levels of Government.  For the last five years, he has been performing Microscopy and Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis on Animal Feed Samples for the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA).  His work helped to prevent the establishment and amplification of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, sometimes referred to as “Mad Cow Disease”) through animal feed.