Key services by product category

Exemplary service offerings:

• Alcohol and spirits: Verify declared botanical origin and detect adulteration or non-compliant blending
• Beer: Check the consistency of label claims and detect undeclared additions or non-compliant practices
• Cereals: Verify cereal type or origin and detect substitution or mislabelling
• Cider: Verify composition and detect adulteration or non-compliant blending
• Coffee: Differentiate botanical varieties (e.g. Arabica vs Robusta), detect undeclared substitutes and assess origin claims
• Dairy products and plant-based alternatives: Verify species origin, detect undeclared non-dairy ingredients and support related claims
• Drinking water: Check geographical origin and CO₂ origin for sparkling waters
• Eggs: Check geographical origin
• Fish: Speciation testing and species identification, detection of undeclared substitutions in fresh and processed products and verification of salmon origin (wild vs farmed)
• Flavours, including essential oils: Differentiate between natural and synthetic, and assess profile consistency and origin
• Fruit and vegetables: Verify botanical and geographical origin or organic claims, and detect labelling inconsistencies
• Fruit juices: Verify declared origin, detect dilution and undeclared sugar additions, addition of exogenous compounds, including flavour, organic acids and sweeteners, or blending with cheaper fruits or use of non-edible fruit parts
• Honey, sugars and sugar syrups: Detect exogenous sugars and assess declared botanical and geographical origin
• Meat: Species verification, origin-claim checks, and substitution detection
  Oils and fats, including olive oil: Confirm oil type and origin, detect adulteration with lower-value oils and check for applied processing, e.g. refining mode
• Organic products: Check for coherence with organic production practices and associated label claims
• Soft drinks: Verify declared contents and claims, e.g. sweetener type and juice content, and profile consistency
• Spices, herbs and tea: Botanical authentication, detection of adulterants or bulking and origin checks
• Vinegars: Origin and composition verification and adulteration checks, including balsamic authenticity
• Wine: Integrity checks covering origin, grape variety and vintage, as well as composition

Key services by methods

Our laboratories apply both targeted and non-targeted methods:

Non-targeted screening validates 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)