Vitamins and minerals
Eurofins Food & Feed Testing offers reliable vitamin analysis, such as water- and fat-soluble vitamins, using advanced methods and technology, ensuring your products meet quality standards, even in complex matrices. These analyses help ensure products meet declared nutritional claims, comply with international labelling regulations, and support product development and quality control.
Key services
- Quantitative analysis of water- and fat-soluble vitamins Using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) vitamins A, C, D, E, K, and the B-vitamin group
- Mineral and trace element determination using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP–OES) and inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP–MS) minerals such as calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, sodium, zinc, and selenium
- Amino acid profiling Using dedicated amino acid analyzers and LC-MS/MS for the analysis of amino acids, including essential, non-essential, and conditionally essential amino acids, for both comprehensive profiling and targeted analysis
- Multi-nutrient profiling in a single workflow
- Stability studies
Legal bases and guidelines
- Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 (addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to foods)
- Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 (labelling of the vitamin content)
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/127 (requirements for infant formula and follow-on formula)
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/128 (requirements for food for special medical purposes)
- Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on food additives
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