Dioxins Testing

Eurofins as a world leading food and feed testing laboratory offers a comprehensive range of testing and analytical services to complement and enhance food safety and quality programs.

We have a global network of food testing laboratories and highly equipped competence centres by which we are capable of conducting more than 200 million assays per year in order to establish the safety, quality, authenticity, origin, and traceability of food.

Need for Dioxins Testing in Food

Dioxins and PCBs are global contaminants found everywhere in many foodstuffs that people generally consume. As we all knew that these are produced as a result of man-made processes, and ongoing contamination in food chain can ultimately result in significant consumer exposure.

Long term exposure to these dioxins may cause reproductive and developmental problems, may have adverse effects on the immune system, interfere with hormonal functions. Increased exposure to dioxin and related chemicals may leads to a specific skin condition called chloracne, decreased sperm production and increased risk of cancer.

More than 90% of human exposure to these toxic chemicals is mainly through food. The food sources include – meat, dairy products, animal fats, fish, shell fish.

Our Food Testing Capabilities

Eurofins developed highly equipped and advanced competence centre for dioxins testing that is able to analyse all 209 PCBs including the dioxin-like PCBs / WHO-PCBs and the DIN / Indicator and ndlPCBs (non-dioxin-like) as required by the California Proposition 65 in its own laboratory.

The Eurofins Competence Centre on dioxins and other PCBs has combined three leading institutes: GfA, MPU and Oekometric. This team is working with internationally recognised scientists, experienced engineers and technical assistants and constantly focusses to detect the toxic chemical constituents and emerging chemical toxins.

At Eurofins, dioxins are analysed in accordance to European directives and certified procedures or upon client's request, according to Japanese standards (JIS requirements) and American standards (US EPA method).

Range of Dioxins and Related Chemicals Testing in Food

• PCDD/F, dl-PCBs and ndl-PCBs in all common food products and feedstuff (methods according to EU regulations)
• PCDD/F in air, exhaust, dust and ashes acc. to VDI 3499
• PCDD/F in emission and ambient air samples acc. to VDI 3498 and VDI 2090
• PCDD/F and PCBs in solids based on DIN 38414-S24 and DIN 38414-20 respectively
• PCBs 209 in accordance to requirements of California Proposition 65
• PCDD/F, dl-PCBs and ndl-PCBs acc. to QS feed monitoring
• We also offer Combined package of PCDD/F, dioxin-like PCBs and indicator PCBs

Dioxins are usually measured as Toxicity Equivalent Quantities (TEQs) or parts per trillion (ppt) of toxicity equivalents.

Most of the analytical procedures adopted for dioxins in foods and feeds use sophisticated techniques as per EC No 1883/2006 and EC No 152/2009 such as gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GCMS). These analytical procedures are very expensive and are more likely offered by larger and well-established laboratories like Eurofins

Parameters we offer include - Polychlorinated dibenzo(p) dioxins and furans (PCDD/F), Mixed-halogenated polybrominated/-chlorinated dibenzo(p) dioxins and furans (PBCDD/F), Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), organotin compounds, chlorobenzenes and chlorophenols, surfactants, plasticizers, alkyl phenols, polychlorinated biphenyls, chloroparaffins, linear alkyl sulfonates

We Offer Accredited Testing Services for Dioxins and Related Compounds in many Food Stuffs Including

• Meat Testing
• Sea foods like Fish (shell fish/ fin fish)
• Poultry
• Eggs
• Dairy products
• Added fats in pan cakes
• Cream soups
• Desserts
• Animal fats
• Processed food, cooked foods and food stuffs
• Animal fodder

Our Special Services

• We have 30 years of experience in the analytical field of Dioxins and PCBs
• Eurofins network lab has accreditation according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 pertaining to Dioxin analysis
• Analyses in accordance with official EU guidelines and regulations, as well as industry norms e.g., DIN EN 1948
• Successful participation in independent interlaboratory comparisons (national / international)
• State-of-the-art laboratory, particularly equipped for the requirements of Dioxins and PCBs analyses
• We possess an Online tool for the tracking of samples and the permanent access to reported results