ALCAT-Food & Chemical Sensitivity Test
ALCAT – Food Allergy & Chemical Sensitivity/Intolerance Test
For over 20 years, the ALCAT Test has provided both patients as well as healthcare professionals with a tool to successfully overcome a wide variety of conditions which result from food and chemical intolerances.
A tremendous amount of health problems have been linked to food intolerance – common everyday problems like migraines, aching joints, fatigue, gastrointestinal disorders, eczema, hyperactivity/ADD, asthma and even obesity.
The ALCAT Test will identify exactly which foods and chemicals are triggering each individual’s problems. Our laboratory currently tests for over 300 foods, food additives, food colorings, environmental chemicals and even molds.
Cell Science Systems Ltd. Corp, provider of the ALCAT Test offers high quality laboratory testing to healthcare professionals and patients using state of the art proprietary technology. We will continue to broaden the understanding of food & chemical sensitivities through various international research projects and clinical trials. CSS offers an extensive and growing product line supported by nutritional consulting and quality client service support.
Our goal is to provide clients with accurate, timely and dependable test results and nutritional support services. The Customer Care Team is available to answer your calls from 8am to 6pm EST, Monday – Friday. We are more than happy to advise you in choosing the appropriate test panel as well as assist you with any other questions before or after taking the test.
The ALCAT Test is also available in the United States as well as the U.K., Italy, Denmark, Israel, Thailand, South Africa, Spain, Mexico, Greece, Germany, Singapore, Ukraine, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and South America including Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina.
The ALCAT Test differs from other food allergy or intolerance tests as it accurately and objectively measures leukocyte cellular reactivity in whole blood, which is a final common pathway of all mechanisms. The test utilizes electronic, state of the art, hematological instrumentation. Standard allergy tests, such as skin testing or RAST are not accurate for delayed type reactions to foods and chemicals. They measure only a single mechanism, such as the effect of mast cell release of histamine or the presence of allergen specific IgE molecules. Delayed reactions to foods and chemicals are NOT IgE mediated.
The ALCAT Test also differs from standard IgG tests in that they rely exclusively on one immune pathway, serum levels of immunoglobulin G (IgG). In fact, high food specific IgG titers are indicative only of exposure, not necessarily intolerance.
The ALCAT Test reproducibly measures the final common pathway of all pathogenic mechanism; whether immune, non-immune, or toxic. It is the only test shown to correlate with clinical symptoms by double blind oral challenges, the gold standard.
Clinical Studies: all in pdf format.
