Key services by product category

Exemplary service offerings:

• Alcohol and spirits: Verification of declared botanical origin and detection of adulteration or non-compliant blending
• Beer: Check label-claim consistency and detect undeclared additions or non-compliant practices
• Cereals: Verify cereal type/origin and detect substitution or mislabelling
• Cider: Verify composition (e.g., sugars) and detect adulteration or non-compliant blending
• Coffee: Differentiate botanical varieties (e.g., Arabica/Robusta), detect undeclared substitutes, and assess origin claims
• Dairy products (incl. plant-based alternatives): Verify species origin and detect undeclared non-dairy ingredients; support related claims
• Drinking water: Authenticity (origin of CO2 for sparkling waters) and, where applicable, origin checks adapted to sector risks
• Eggs: Support label-claim checks and authenticity controls for egg products, aligned to identified risks
• Fish: Species identification (speciation) and detection of undeclared substitution in fresh and processed products; verify salmon origin (wild/farmed)
• Flavours (incl. essential oils): Differentiate natural vs synthetic; assess profile consistency and, where relevant, origin
• Fruit and vegetables: Verify botanical/geographical origin or organic claims; detect labelling inconsistencies
• Fruit juices: Detect dilution and undeclared sugar additions, addition of exogenous compounds (flavour, organic acids, sweeteners, etc.), or blending with cheaper fruits or use of non-edible parts of fruits; verify declared origin
• Honey, sugars, and sugar syrups: Detect exogenous sugars; assess declared botanical/geographical origin
• Meat: Species verification; origin-claim checks; substitution detection
• Oils and fats (incl. olive oil): Confirm oil type and origin; detect adulteration with lower-value oils; control of applied processing (e.g. refining mode)
• Organic products: Checks for coherence with organic production practices and associated label claims (untargeted analysis)
• Soft drinks: Verify declared contents/claims (e.g., juice content, sweetener type) and profile consistency
• Spices and herbs (including tea): Botanical authentication; detection of bulking/adulterants; origin checks where relevant
• Vinegars: Origin and composition verification; adulteration checks (e.g., balsamic authenticity)
• Wine: Comprehensive integrity checks (origin, grape variety, vintage) and detection of sugar additions/non-compliant blending

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Key services by methods

Our laboratories apply both targeted and non-targeted methods:

Non-targeted screening controls the overall conformity of an ingredient through spectral fingerprinting vs. reference databases to detect anomalies and adulteration

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Profiling
• Chromatography coupled with High Resolution Mass Spectrometry LC/GC-HRMS

Targeted analysis focuses on known adulteration / fraud markers

• Composition analysis (wet chemistry, chromatography)
• Stable isotope analysis (SNIF-NMR, IRMS)
• Molecular biology methods
• Flavour profile analysis (GC-MS quantitative profiling, chiral analysis)

Specialist solutions

• Verifying declared geographical origin
• Explaining food spoilage using bacterial flora testing (NGS)
• Pathogen tracking using whole genome sequencing (WGS)

Leading expertise in food integrity testing

As a global leader in authenticity testing the Eurofins network of laboratories offers you advanced analytical techniques and expert advice to protect your brand and your consumers.

Eurofins Analytics France SAS is the Competence Centre for authenticity testing within the Eurofins laboratory network in Europe with decades of experience in this field, ranging from wine and juice testing to organic food control. Complementary services for food integrity services are successfully established by Eurofins Analytik GmbH (olive oil, coffee and supplements testing) and Eurofins Food Integrity Control Services GmbH (honey testing) in Germany. A considerable investment in research and development enables the Eurofins network of laboratories to apply the most suitable methods to each specific case when evaluating the authenticity of a product.