Whether environmental contaminants, process contaminants, migration residues or other contaminants – the Eurofins laboratories for food and feed analysis in Germany offer you a comprehensive range of services: State-of-the-art laboratory equipment with latest analytical methods as well as complementary advice and training provided by our experts – take advantage of our expertise!
Organic contaminants are undesirable substances of potential health concern that can be found at trace levels in food. They may enter food products at various stages of production, processing, transportation or storage or can be the result of environmental contamination.
Organic contaminants may enter food from the environment through contact with air, water or soil:
Process contaminants are formed during the manufacturing process (e.g. fermentation, smoking, drying, refining, heating) by chemical modification of food ingredients:
Traces of certain chemicals can migrate from food contact materials into food:
Other contaminants can enter food as illegal additives or in the case of THC, exceed current maximum levels due to improper production:
The field of organic contaminants is extremely dynamic with regard to legal regulations and analytical methods. Various new or lowered maximum levels or the extension of maximum levels for additional food groups have come into force in recent years. Several analytical coupling techniques as well as automation solutions are used to always provide state-of-the-art methods and fast turnaround times. Our internal R&D team is constantly improving existing methods and implementing new methods to meet future requirements at an early stage.
Eurofins continuously invests in the latest chromatographic measurement and coupling techniques with the objective of ensuring the analysis of chemically heterogeneous organic contaminants in all relevant food and feed matrices. Multiple instrument redundancies enable high analytical capacities and ensure continuous production capability.
Automation solutions enable optimal utilization of laboratory and measurement capacities and short turnaround times. Comprehensive robotic solutions are individually adapted to our laboratory processes for the entire sample preparation process of specific analytical production lines. Furthermore, various automated coupling techniques of clean-up and measurement techniques for high-frequency analyses complement our automation solutions.
Based on continuous cooperation with relevant working groups, constant improvement of methods and the participation in a large number of technical specialist events, our range of analytical and consulting services is always at the forefront of current scientific developments. Being the Competence Centre of the global Eurofins Group, our expertise reaches across all industries and is built on a database of numerous food and feed analyses of samples from all over the world. In the event of positive findings, we offer our advice on potential sources of contamination and mitigation measures. Just contact us!
The Eurofins Food Legislation News are published every two months, focusing on innovations in food legislation and interesting court rulings. Here you will find, among other things, information worth knowing about food supplements on a regular basis as well as a selected overview of important RASFF rapid alerts.
For accreditations and designations, e.g. as Official Laboratory, please refer to the laboratory page of our Competence Centre or the page of our Eurofins partner laboratory.
Analysis of nitrosamines in food
Analysis of furan and methylfurans in food
Analysis of MCPD and glycidol esters in food
Analysis of THC, CBD and other cannabinoids in food Lebensmitteln
EFSA and BfR issue re-evaluations of Bisphenol A
Analysis of PAHs in fats/oils using online LC-GC-MS
Trace analysis of vanillin and ethyl vanillin in food using LC-ESI-MS/MS
