Meat, poultry, and seafood
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Eurofins Food & Feed Testing laboratories support producers, packers, processors, manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, and distributors of meat, poultry and seafood products to ensure the highest quality outputs. We support your bottom line with our top-of-the-line services, and our commitment to innovation, agility, individualized service, and the highest quality standards. Our network of local laboratories and expert consultants deliver fast, accurate testing and cost-efficient expertise to every region we serve.
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Our ISO 17025 accredited laboratories offer comprehensive and tailored solutions to the beef industry, from environmental monitoring, to validations, special projects, and specific beef testing. We are your beef testing laboratory partner making sure your products meet regulatory and customer standards to food safety and quality. You have spent years building your brand. It’s our job to help you protect it.
Key testing services for the beef industry:
- Pathogen testing (including STECs, E. coli (biotype I), Salmonella, Listeria, and others)
- Process control, indicator, and spoilage organism testing (including aerobic plate count, yeast and mold, coliforms, and others)
- Adulteration and authenticity testing (including meat speciation and filth and extraneous matter)
- Contaminants (including antibiotic and drug residue screens, pesticide screens, hormone screens, heavy metals, and others)
- Nutritional analysis (including proximates, fat claims, nutritional labeling, fat and amino acid profiles, vitamins, minerals, and others)
- Shelf life, stability, and rancidity analysis
- Allergen testing
- Method validations, intervention validations, beef combo sampling, beef sampling protocols, carcass swabbing, process control verifications, and others
Poultry industry
Our ISO 17025 accredited laboratories support the poultry industry from flock health and consumer trends to regulatory fluctuations. Our comprehensive poultry services support the poultry industry at all stages with customized and local support. We are your poultry testing laboratory partner making sure your products meet regulatory and customer standards in safety and quality. You have spent years building your brand. It’s our job to help you protect it.
Key testing services for the poultry industry:
- Pathogen testing (including STECs, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and others)
- Process control, indicator, and spoilage organism testing (including aerobic plate count, yeast and mold, coliforms, and others)
- Adulteration and authenticity testing (including meat speciation and filth and extraneous matter)
- Contaminants (including antibiotic and drug residue screens, ammelide, mycotoxins, pesticide screens, heavy metals, and others)
- Nutritional analysis (including proximates, USDA moisture retention, bone particle and content analysis, nutritional labeling, fat and amino acid profiles, vitamins, minerals, and others)
- Shelf life, stability, and rancidity analysis
- Allergen testing
- Intervention validations, efficacy studies
- Bird, rinse, and carcass rinse analysis; litter and pullorum testing
Pork industry
Offering comprehensive solutions to the pork or swine industry, our ISO 17025 accredited laboratories specialize in product testing, environmental monitoring, validations, and special projects. We are here to support you with your HACCP plan, verification of Salmonella control measures, carcass sampling protocols, and many other services. We are your pork testing laboratory partner, making sure you meet regulatory and customer standards in safety and quality. You have spent years building your brand. It’s our job to help you protect it.
Key testing services for the pork/swine industry:
- Pathogen testing (including Listeria, Salmonella, Trichinella, and others)
- Process control, indicator, and spoilage organism testing (including aerobic plate count, yeast and mold, coliforms, and others)
- Adulteration and authenticity testing (including meat speciation and filth and extraneous matter)
- Contaminant testing (including drug residue screens, ractopamine testing, beta-agonist testing, heavy metals, and others)
- Nutritional analysis (including proximates, added water, protein on fat free basis (PFF), nutritional labeling, fatty acid profiles, and others)
- Shelf life, stability, and rancidity analysis
- Allergen testing
- Processing aids, preservatives, and antioxidants (including nitrates, nitrites, phosphates, propyl gallate, and others)
Seafood industry
Our ISO 17025 accredited laboratories support the seafood industry with services related to global market trends, sustainability, quality and authenticity. With the most advanced analytical solutions in the market, Eurofins Food & Feed Testing US is your trusted local partner in seafood imports, aquaculture feed safety, fish and seafood speciation testing, and many other analytical and microbiological testing needs whether you are a producer, processor, retailer, distributor, importer or exporter. We are here to support your NOAA Seafood Inspection Program and Global Aquaculture Alliance's (GAA) BAP Certification requirements.
Key testing services for the seafood industry:
- Pathogen testing (including Salmonella, Listeria, Vibrio, and others)
- Process control, indicator, and spoilage organism testing (including aerobic plate count, yeast and mold, coliforms, and others)
- Adulteration and authenticity testing (including fish speciation testing, seafood speciation testing, and filth and extraneous matter)
- Contaminant testing (including methyl mercury, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), PCBs, PBBs, dioxins, nitrofurans, chloramphenicols, fluoroquinolones, and others)
- Nutritional and decomposition analysis (including proximates, nutritional labeling, fatty acid profiles, indole, histamine, biogenic amines, total volatile basic nitrogen (TVBN), and others)
- Shelf life, stability, and rancidity analysis
- Allergen testing
- Preservatives and processing aid residual testing (including 4-hexylresorcinol, sulfites, phosphates, polyphosphates, and others)
Why choose Eurofins Food & Feed Testing?
- Regulatory expertise
- ISO 17025 accredited laboratories
- Industry-leading turnaround time
- Local, responsive customer service
- Critical issue resolution