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In this work, we present a novel 3D printed and fully disposable device, FieldNA, which minimizes specialized reagents and laboratory equipment requirements for nucleic acid extraction. The device relies on gravity driven vertical flow, and a magnet assisted bead washing and solid-liquid separation phase. Its functionality is demonstrated through DNA extraction from olive oil samples, and its performance is compared to three widely used extraction methods: CTAB combined with phenol chloroform (PCl), and two commercial filter column-based DNA extraction kits. The optimized FieldNA device prototype repeatably produced nucleic acid yield and quality comparable to the above lab-based olive oil DNA extraction techniques. 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