Contaminants Testing

Our Contaminant Testing services help clients to analyse their food products for a range of possible substances, such as pesticides, mycotoxins, organic pollutants, and dioxins.

New contaminants are identified every year, as consumer and public policies become more and more sensitive to the risks present in our food and feed products. This increasing concern for food and feed safety goes hand in hand with advanced testing capabilities to detect those molecules with adverse side effects on human or animal health. Substances that can be carcinogenic, reprotoxic (side effect on pregnant women) or even mutagenic (impact on human genes structures).

Being able to detect specific contaminants requires very sensitive and selective instruments and methods, such as chromatography and mass spectrometry. Chromatography allows the separation of molecules in order to identify the ones that are looked for (selectivity) and mass spectrometers add their capability to detect tiny quantities (down to one piece per billion).

Our laboratories are equipped with cutting-edge technologies that enable us to determine the presence of a wide range of contaminants in food, such as:

• pesticide residues
• mycotoxins
• heavy metals
• process contaminants (3-MCPD, acrylamide, furans etc.)
• persistent organic pollutants (POPs, IPA, dioxin, PCB etc.)
• drug
• MOSH/MOAH (saturated or aromatic hydrocarbons of mineral oils)
• PFAS / PFOS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances which are persistent pollutants in the environment and can migrate into food and feed stuffs)

Request an Analysis

To learn more about our food safety services, or to request and analysis for your business, please contact us.