Short History of Eurofins Scientific

Eurofins Scientific was founded in 1987 to market the SNIF-NMR technology, a patented analytical method used to verify the origin and purity of several types of food and beverages in cases where traditional testing methods would fail to detect a sophisticated fraud. Within a 20-year period, the Group has grown from a start-up company with 12 employees to become an international network of over 150 laboratories located in Europe, the USA, Asia and South-America employing about 7,000 staff.

Eurofins' history can be divided up into four distinct phases:

1987-1997 Start-up phase

1997-2001 Expanding the technology portfolio

2002-2004 Establishing the infrastructure

2005 onwards Becoming a global reference