December 17, 2024
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Corrected the wording for how fish acquire omega-3s from microalgae.
February 15, 2023
Revised the Dietary Supplements section to include additional research on the bioavailability of krill oil.
July 18, 2022
Updated the Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and CVD risk factors section, Dry eye disease section, and Safety of Omega-3s section to add the STRENGTH clinical trial and the recent ancillary study from the VITAL trial on dry eye disease.
June 2, 2022
Revised wording to reflect current scientific consensus that obesity is a disease.
August 4, 2021
Revised text to state that the FDA has concluded that dietary supplements providing no more than 5 g/day EPA and DHA are safe when used as recommended; also updated reference 178.
March 26, 2021
Linked to and cited the new edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and updated the associated text.
October 1, 2020
The cardiovascular disease (CVD) and CVD risk factors section was extensively revised and updated.
January 6, 2020
Corrected the link for reference for 17 and 67.
July 9, 2019
Updated the link to USDA’s FoodData Central.
June 11, 2019
Corrected reference 136, Zhang et al.
November 21, 2018
Added results of the newly published VITAmin D and OmegaA-3 TriaL (VITAL) on cardiovascular disease and cancer.
June 6, 2018
Added a new section on dry eye disease and updated the section on cardiovascular disease.
March 2, 2018
Updated Dietary Reference Intake definitions.
