New International Business Line "Food Assurance"

Eurofins press release from 21.01.2020

New Food Assurance International Business Line Pools Existing Global Synergies within the Eurofins Group

Brussels, Belgium - 21/01/2020. Eurofins, a global leader in the Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) industry and a market leader in Food & Feed Testing is pleased to announce that its existing Food Assurance businesses in North America, Europe and Asia will now work together under the newly established Eurofins Food Assurance Business Line.

All stakeholders of the Food & Feed industry, from the primary producer, manufacturers to retailers and distributors can now rely on Eurofins Food Assurance as a global trusted partner. The new Business Line offers a unique line of assurance services such as auditing, certification, training and consulting, including labelling services for international market access. Eurofins Food Assurance takes advantage of global synergies and will further expand its geographical coverage in 2020.

Through Food Assurance, Eurofins will combine its expertise, reputation for quality, safety and integrity and use its market leadership position to support its customers internationally. Eurofins Food Assurance helps them to identify and mitigate risks along their supply chain – in terms of operations, processes, systems and people – to bring the safest and highest quality products to market for consumers around the world and ultimately safeguard their brands.

Local Eurofins representatives will continue to support customers in their markets; however, customers with a global footprint will now also have access to a one-stop-shop worldwide panel of assurance experts, who will leverage 25 years of experience and expertise in the industry, to support their operations across the world. The new Business Line completes and complements Eurofins’ Food & Feed Testing offering, recognised as one of the best in the world.

Christophe Liebon, Assurance International Business Line Director explains: "We are delighted to bring our experts from across the world together under one roof to speak as one voice to our global customers. With over 25 years’ experience in the TIC industry, Eurofins strives to surpass client expectation, and to optimise operational performance and growth, to support our customers facing ever evolving food quality, safety and integrity risks."

About Eurofins Food Assurance
Established in 2019, Eurofins Food Assurance brings the Group’s Food Assurance businesses in North America, Europe and Asia together under one business line. With over 25 years of experience in the testing, inspection and certification (TIC) industry, Eurofins Food Assurance offers customers the best support to identify and mitigate risks along their supply chain – in terms of operations, processes, systems or people.

Clients in the Food industries can benefit from a full scope of services from auditing, certification, training and consultation to help eliminate potential risks in compliance, quality and safety failures at the early stages of the supply chain, protecting brand image and minimising the risk of product recalls and other undesirable scenarios.

About the Eurofins Group: a global leader in the TIC industry
With about 45,000 staff in more than 800 laboratories across 47 countries, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods for evaluating the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin and purity of biological substances and products. Eurofins believes it is a scientific leader in the food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing, inspection and certification (TIC) industry and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the leading global emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing.

As one of the most innovative and quality-oriented international players in its industry, Eurofins is ideally positioned to support its clients with increasingly stringent quality and safety standards and the expanding demands of regulatory authorities around the world.

Important disclaimer
This press release contains forward-looking statements and estimates that involve risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements and estimates contained herein represent the judgment of Eurofins Scientific’s management as of the date of this release. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees for future performance, and the forward-looking events discussed in this release may not occur. Eurofins Scientific disclaims any intent or obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements and estimates. All statements and estimates are made based on the information available to the Company’s management as of the date of publication, but no guarantee can be made as to their validity.