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)

Leading experts 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, while complementary services for food integrity services are provided 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.