Analysis of pesticides
Pesticides are active ingredients or mixtures of active ingredients that are usually applied to plants to protect them from pests. They also include storage protection agents that can be applied in the further stages of the production process of a foodstuff or food ingredient.
These substances can enter the human body via the food chain or the water cycle and therefore maximum residue levels are regulated in the individual foods.
This is what you can expect from us
Global trade in food and raw materials of plant origin requires compliance with European and international maximum residue levels regulations. Eurofins laboratories for food and feed testing in Germany are among the leading residue laboratories worldwide and have a 50-year history in residue analysis.
Our services
- Analytical services
- Performance of pesticide residue analyses using modern multi, group and single methods.
- Performance of express analyses
- Performance of pesticide analyses under specific accreditations, such as GMP and GLP, also according to ph. / USP
- Method development and validation under GMP/GLP according to customer requirements.
- Consulting service
- Consulting on national and international issues (e.g. on regulations, limits) in the field of residues.
- Development of product-specific monitoring plans and consulting with regard to the scope of investigations
- Consulting on product safety
- IFS audits
- Sampling at national and international level
- Performance of GLP studies (in the context of approval procedures for plant protection products)
Analysable products
- Fresh fruits and vegetables
- Dried fruits and vegetables (flakes and powder) and concentrates
- Fruit and vegetable juices and concentrates
- Tea, coffee, cocoa
- Baby food
- Cereals, including rice, and grain products
- Beverages, wine and spirits
- Fish and fish products
- Meat and meat products
- Convenience
- Herbs and spices
- Oleoresins
- Flavours
- Dairy products
- Fats and oils
- Candies
- Honey
- Feed
- Drugs
- Tobacco
- Soil, drinking water, wastewater
- Sera, plasma, blood (within the framework of GLP studies)
Selection of analysis parameters
- Pesticides in the scope of multi-analysis screenings
- E.g. organochlorine pesticides, pyrethroids, organophosphorus insecticides and other substances
- Pesticide residues using group methods:
- Acid herbicides (phenoxyalkanecarboxylic acids)
- Phenylureas
- Polar pesticides (such as ethephon, fosetyl/phosphonic acid, matrin/oxymatrin, glufosinate including its metabolites)
- Single methods:
- Dithiocarbamate
- Numerous other active substances (such as ethylene oxide, bromide, glyphosate)
- Other substances on request
Relevant legal bases and guidelines
In order to protect the consumer, the legislator has set maximum levels for plant protection products, pesticides and preservatives in Regulation (EC) No. 396/2005 within the framework of the German Food and Feed Code (LFGB). Organic food in general must also comply with the maximum levels applicable to conventional food. In addition, EC organic Regulation No. 889/2008 applies.
- LFGB (Foodstuffs, Commodities and Feedstuffs Code, in German)
- Regulation(EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Maximum residue levels of pesticides), consolidated text
- Commission Regulation (EC) No 889/2008 (EC Organic Regulation), consolidated text
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