Beverages
The beverage industry is incredibly diverse and fast moving, pivoting constantly as new consumer trends emerge. That's why partnering with a third-party beverage testing laboratory that provides fast, accurate, and comprehensive solutions is key. Our teams of beverage experts can support you through the entire product life cycle, from concept to commercialization.
Eurofins Food & Feed Testing's network of laboratories understands your unique needs and that not all beverages are the same. Let us tailor our solutions to meet your goals. Whether you need product development, product and ingredient testing, shelf-life studies, challenge studies, or consulting, we are here to guide and support you with industry-leading technologies, state-of-the-art laboratories, and easy access to experts when challenging situations occur. You have spent years building your brand. It’s our job to help you protect it.
Let us help find your solution
Have an idea for a beverage but would like help formulating and bringing it to market? Eurofins Product Development and Innovation has a comprehensive team of formulators, sensory scientists, chefs, food scientists, market researchers, and others to help you develop a successful product and beat out the competition.
Ingredient verification
Verifying the ingredients in your formulas is key to producing a safe and high quality product. Eurofins Food & Feed Testing's network of laboratories has you covered with both compendial (ex. USP) and non-compendial microbiological and analytical methods suitable for your raw materials. Below are just some of the types of ingredients we actively verify for either safety, quality, authenticity, potency, purity, and/or identification.
- Vitamins
- Minerals and elementals
- Dietary supplements ingredients
- Phytonutrients
- Flavor compounds
- Concentrates
- Proteins
- Fats, oils, and lipids
- Botanical extracts
- Sugars and no calorie sweeteners
- Fibers
- Preservatives
- Probiotic bacteria
Finished product testing
Our scientific teams collaborate with yours to develop innovative, customizable testing solutions to ensure that you deliver the safest, highest quality finished products to market. Solutions may include:
- Proximate and nutritional testing including label generation
- Vitamins and minerals
- Protein, amino acids, and PDCAAS
- Fat content and full fatty acid profiles (including omegas)
- Shelf life and stability studies
- Microbiology for safety and quality including pathogens, indicators, and spoilage organisms
- Contaminant screening including heavy metals, pesticide screens, aflatoxins, and many others
- Allergens and GMOs
Special project services
For more challenging needs, our teams are confident in developing tailored solutions that fit your goals:
- Process validations and verifications
- Challenge testing
- Sensory evaluation
- Product and ingredient investigations
- Foreign or unknown material identification
- Off-flavor or off-odor issues and spoilage studies
- Product recall and FDA detention
- Litigation support
On-site solutions
Having access to solutions you can use on-site and in real time can provide great value for decision making during processing. We have a specialized team to develop and implement on-site, rapid analysis based on our more than 20 years of expertise of NIR/IR implementation.
- In-line systems for real-time, in-process tracking of critical specifications
- Benchtop solutions for testing throughout your process, from raw material to finished product
- No sample prep, non-destructive, no solvents or reagents needed for sample analysis
- Custom model development; on-going model maintenance and validation
- Total solution services without capital investment
- For applications which include whole fruits, fruit puree, hops, grains, blending mixes, fermentation, and adulteration analysis
Consulting, auditing, and certification support
Eurofins Food Assurance companies are here to provide auditing and consulting for critical steps in the supply chain: warehouse/distribution center audits, Costco Addendums & Supplier audits, GMP audits, HACCP verification audits, pre-assessments, GFSI audit schemes, risk assessments, etc.
Industries we support
Eurofins Food & Feed Testing supports manufacturers, processors, retailers, distributors, packers, grocers, sellers, importers, and exporters of many types of beverages.
Alcoholic beverages
Eurofins Food & Feed Testing's network of laboratories offers unique services to support beer, wine, and spirits. We are able to support our customers with the following alcoholic beverage testing services:
- Testing for residues and verifying the quality of grapes, including smoke residue
- Proximates analysis
- Verify of raw materials and produce
- Contaminants testing, including heavy metals
- Off-flavor and off-odor analyses
Need a service that you don't see here? Contact us about additional capabilities.
Coffee and tea
Today, tea and coffee comes in many different forms. Advances in technology have introduced a variety of new ways to enjoy coffee with aseptic, high-pressure processing (HPP), cold-brew, spray-dried, ready-to-drink options. However, as newer technologies emerge, testing is essential to ensure consumers receive safe products that meet regulatory and quality standards.
Eurofins Food & Feed Testing has developed numerous analytical methods, which provide reliable and highly sensitive detection and quantification of contaminants, such as acrylamide, pesticides, mycotoxins, and heavy metals. Our methods and personnel are certified, approved, or accredited by expert organizations, including A2LA, AOCS, FOSFAL, and GAFTA, which enables us to provide the most consistent results for your coffee and tea products. In addition, our US Tea Association membership ensures we stay at the forefront of the specific testing needs of the industry.
Eurofins Food & Feed Testing is a proud partner of the National Coffee Association. We offer an exclusive discount to NCA members.
Check out some of our most requested services below. Need a service that you don't see? Contact us about our additional capabilities.
- Ingredient verification
- Shelf life and stability testing
- Routine microbiology (ex. Salmonella, yeast, and mold)
- Special microbial studies
- Environmental monitoring
- Contaminants, such as heavy metals, pesticides, acrylamide
- Product development
- Allergens
- GMO screening
- Nutritional panel and label generation
Functional beverages
Eurofins Food & Feed Testing US laboratories understand the unique challenges and diversity associated with functional beverages. If you are producing or selling beverages with added functional ingredients, it will be important that you verify levels of actives and match your nutritional or dietary supplement facts panel. Our teams of scientists have the expertise to analyze your raw ingredients for purity, identity, and contaminants, and then confirm their content in a beverage post processing and through shelf life.
Our national network of ISO 17025 accredited laboratories can support you throughout the entire product lifecycle, from verifying your label claims to shelf life and stability testing, ingredient and product testing, as well as consulting on regulatory and product development needs. In addition, our real-time results platform simplifies ordering testing and obtaining results.
Juices and soft drinks
Juices, juice-based drinks, and soft drinks pose unique challenges compared to other beverages. With the use of a variety of processes such as cold fill, pasteurization, aseptic, and high pressure processing (HPP) combined with varying levels of natural juices, sugars/sweeteners, and acidulants a lot of problems can arise. Seeking assistance from a third-party juice testing laboratory can boost both the safety and quality of your finished products and protect your brand.
Our scientists have been supporting the industry for over 30 years with a variety of services. Check out some of our most requested services below. Need something that you don't see below? Contact us about our additional capabilities.
- Juice authenticity
- Microbiological testing (including Alicyclobacillus testing and heat resistant mold detection)
- Challenge testing
- Spoilage investigations
- Contaminant screenings (ex. pesticides, heavy metals, patulin, sulfites)
- Shelf life studies
- Ingredient verification
- Off flavor or off odor investigations
- Process validations
- Product development
- Nutritional profiling and labeling
- Allergens and GMOs
- Environmental monitoring
- Process authority
Milks and creamers
Animal-based
Eurofins Food & Feed Testing's network of dairy laboratories boasts 70 years of experience testing animal-based milks and creamers utilizing the most advanced and efficient wet chemistry techniques at our ISO 17025 accredited laboratories. Click here to learn more about our solutions for dairy customers.
Plant-based
The popularity of plant-based beverage continues to rise. With a large portfolio of validated methods, our teams of scientists are ready to provide you fast, accurate, and convenient solutions that fit your needs and support you to safeguard your product’s safety and quality and that of your brand.
Check out some of our most asked for services below. Need a service that you don't see? Contact us about our additional capabilities.
- Protein, amino acids, and PDCAAS
- Omegas and full fatty acid profiles
- Sugar profiles
- Vitamins and minerals
- Anti-nutrients
- Nutritional labeling
- Contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides, and aflatoxins
- Product development
- Allergens and GMOs
- Routine microbiology and special studies
- Environmental monitoring
- Shelf life and stability
Probiotics and fermented beverages
Kombuchas, kefirs, and other probiotic and fermented beverages require special attention as these types of matrices contain complex microbiological environments requiring special testing methods. Eurofins Food & Feed Testing is proud to be a leading testing laboratory for probiotic testing, partnering with many probiotic suppliers to run strain-specific enumeration procedures.
Need something that you don't see below? Contact us about our additional capabilities.
- Microbiological testing
- Spoilage investigations
- Competing organisms investigations
- Microbiome studies
- Contaminant screenings
- Shelf life studies
- Ingredient verification
- Off flavor or off odor investigations
- Process validations
- Product development
- Nutritional profiling and labeling
- Allergens and GMO
- Environmental monitoring