Analytical Chemistry

"Big 7" as required by the LMIV (Regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011), "Big 4", "Big 8".

Testing for parameters relevant to food law:

• Meat products: guideline-positions (Hydroxyprolin, etc.), water, protein, fat, preparations, nitrite/nitrate, phosphate, NPN, free amino acids, common salt
• Milk & dairy products: Röse-Gottlieb fat, fat in dry matter, freezing point of milk, whipped cream test, butter hardness
• Pasta: Egg content (via cholesterol determination).
• Fats and oils: fat ratios, fatty acid distribution, K-values in olive oil
• Fish / fish products: TVBN content, histamine
• Alcoholic beverages / wine: alcohol, sulfur dioxide, heavy metals, density
• Mustard: allyl isothiocyanate

Analysis of additives:

• Preservatives
• water soluble colorants
• sweeteners: acesulfame, saccharin, aspartame, cyclamate
• flavor enhancers

Analysis for residues/contaminants:

• pesticides: organochlorine pesticides, pyrethroids and pyrethrins, organophosphorus insecticides, phenylureas, phenoxyalkanecarboxylic acids, benzimidazole fungicides
• Dithiocarbamates
• brominated fumigants
• Chlormequat
• Mepiquat
• Nicotine
• Mycotoxins: Aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, G2, aflatoxin M1, further mycotoxins see immunological tests
• Heavy metals
• Minerals
• PCBs*
• PAHs
• veterinary drugs: amphenicols, tetracyclines, quinolones, nitrofuran metabolites
• Plasticizers

Special analysis parameters:

• Quaternary ammonium compounds
• 3-MCPD esters
• Glycidyl esters
• Acrylamide
• Coumarin
• Volatile halogenated hydrocarbons
• Vitamins

Enzymatic methods:

• sugar differentiation (glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose, lactose, galactose)
• L-glutamic acid
• Ethanol
• Starch
• D-/L-lactic acid
• Sulfite
• Citric acid

* Analysis performed by partner laboratory