Analysis of fruits and vegetables
From the field to retail
The Eurofins laboratories for food and feed testing in Germany offer you a comprehensive portfolio of services along the entire fruit and vegetable supply chain – from seeding, pre-harvest sampling and residue testing to packaging evaluation.
Our services for fruits and vegetables
Even before the growing season, we support you with our technical expertise and accompany you with leaf analyses, pre-harvest sampling and distribution. With sampling at your doorstep, in your field, in the container or overseas, we ensure independent product control. On its way to the consumer, the product is stored, refined, processed, packaged and labeled. The external influences on your product are as diverse as your product itself. Together, we help you develop a monitoring plan and identify risk points and concepts for your fruits and vegetables.
With our expertise in the areas of pesticide residues, many individual methods such as chlorate/perchlorate, fosetyl/phosphonic acid, contaminants such as heavy metals or alkaloids, as well as packaging testing, we support you in providing your customers with the best and safest products with high product availability.
Our services at a glance:
- Plant protection products: pesticide multi-method with over 700 active ingredients
- Daily analysis: delivered in the morning, your result in the evening, also on Saturdays
- New multimethods: polar multimethod, phenoxyalkanecarboxylic acids/acid herbicides
- Single methods: phosphonic acid/fosetyl, chlorate/perchlorate, ethephon, bromide, nitrate, matrine, ethylene oxide and many more
- Waxes: beeswax, carnauba wax
- Sample collection in Germany and worldwide
- Labeling inspection of your packaging, for example with the indication "waxed"
- Legal evaluation and assessment according to current EU laws, national and worldwide regulations, retailer specifications, BNN, BIO
- Sampling on site and around the world
- EOL-Eurofins Online: Your service portal for handling your samples, analyses and results
- Databases: Maintenance of your databases like QS, Fruitmonitoring or other ERP systems
Reliability and quality
Our analytical methods meet all requirements of national and international norms and standards as well as food retail and trade association requirements. Daily QA checks ensure this quality for every result that leaves our laboratories. We are also there for you after the analytical testing: With our expertise, we support you in the interpretation of your results. Results controlling in our online portal EOL gives you maximum clarity, from the order to the pivot table.
Contact us
If you have any questions or require individual advice, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to your request.
Relevant legal bases and guidelines
- Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council (maximum residue levels)
- Commission Regulation (EC) No 889/2008 (organic products)
- Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (general principles)
- Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915 (Contaminants-Regulation)
- Regulation on the reorganization of food law provisions on food additives – LMZDV (in german)
- Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (food additives)
- Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (food information)
Memberships and approvals of individual Eurofins laboratories
- Deutscher Fruchthandelsverband (DFHV) e.V.
- QS-System
- Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
- Relana
- Freshfel
- Bundesverband Naturkost Naturwaren (BNN) e.V.
- HDE Trade Services, Fruit Monitoring
- Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), Lebensmittelchemische Gesellschaft (LChG), Arbeitsgruppe Pestizide
- Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (BVL), Task Force Pflanzenschutzmittelrückstände
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