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Contaminant Testing

Our experts focus on the scientific research relating to intentionally added food components and to those arising from chemical changes during food processing, bioactive chemicals and natural toxicants.

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  1. Dioxins and Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

    Fera food safety experts are able to establish the levels of a range of Dioxins and PCBs within your food sample as part of a complete overview of the safety of your foodstuffs. Our accredited methods of analysis are important to confirm that levels of these potentially harmful chemicals within your foodstuffs are below legislative limits thus avoiding potentially damaging product recalls, refusals, and loss of customer trust. With this analysis, our food safety experts can measure the levels of both dioxin like and non-dioxin like PCBs in your food samples.

    Many different matrices can be tested not just foods, contact us for further information or to discuss your needs with one of our scientists.

  2. Metals Analysis
    Fera food testing experts perform extensive mineral and trace element testing of food samples, accredited to ISO17025, to provide insights into the quality and safety of your foodstuffs.
  3. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)

    Fera food safety specialists are expert at identifying and quantifying a range of PBDEs within your samples. Through this detailed analysis, useful insights can be found to confirm your sample is safe to offer to consumers. Our accredited methods are well suited to providing the accuracy and detection limits you require to highlight these contaminants.

    Many different matrices can be tested not just foods, contact us for further information or to discuss your needs with one of our scientists.

  4. Metals Analysis - 5 Day Fast Turnaround

    Fera food testing experts perform extensive mineral and trace element testing of food samples, accredited to ISO17025, to provide insights into the quality and safety of your foodstuffs.

  5. Iodine
    Fera food testing experts perform accurate iodine analysis on food samples to provide insights into the quality and safety of your foodstuffs.
  6. Inorganic Arsenic (iAs)
    Fera food testing experts use leading detection techniques to accurately identify levels of potentially toxic arsenic within food samples. From this valuable insight you can satisfy regulators on the safety of your foodstuffs.
  7. Acrylamide
    Acrylamide is a chemical substance formed by a reaction between amino acids and sugars. It typically occurs when foods with high starch content such as potatoes, root vegetables and bread, are cooked at high temperatures (over 120°C) in a process of frying, roasting or baking.
  8. Bisphenol A - Food and Beverage, Infant Formula, or Food Packaging Samples
    Bisphenol A is employed to make certain plastics and epoxy resins. BPA-based plastic is clear and tough, and is made into a variety of common consumer goods, such as water bottles. Epoxy resins containing are also used as coatings on the inside of many food and beverage cans.
  9. Dioxins, Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and PBDEs

    Fera food safety specialists are expert at identifying and quantifying a range of PBDEs within your samples. Through this detailed analysis, useful insights can be found to confirm your sample is safe to offer to consumers. Our accredited methods are well suited to providing the accuracy and detection limits you require to highlight these contaminants.

    Many different matrices can be tested not just foods, contact us for further information or to discuss your needs with one of our scientists.

  10. 3-MCPD Analysis
    3-MCPD (3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol), 2-MCPD (2-monochloropropane-1,2-diol) and glycidyl esters are a by-product of processing or refining edible oils and fats and are only relatively recent in their discovery.
  11. Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids

    Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are a group of toxins produced by several species of plants, that typically grow as weeds. Contamination of other plant crops with PAs, e.g. teas and herbal products can occur as a result of small amounts of these weeds being included with these crops.

    These toxins are a potential risk for consumers as they can enter the food chain. Fera has developed an LC-MSMS method to analyse for 28 pyrrolizidine alkaloids each with a limit of quantification (LOQ) of 1 μg/kg.

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  1. Mycotoxins 10 items
  2. Process Contaminants 4 items
  3. Dioxins, PCBs and PAHs 4 items
  4. Metals 4 items
  5. Chloropropanols 1 item
Accreditation
  1. ISO 17025 17 items
  2. ISO 17025 flexible scope 1 item
  3. No 1 item
  4. None 1 item
  5. Only free 3-MCPD method 2 items
  6. ISO 17025 (Plant Material Only) 1 item
LOD (limit of detection)
  1. Reporting limit of 30 μg/kg Foods 1 item
  2. Target LOD’s: 0.01 - 0.02 μg/kg 1 item
  3. Target LOQ 0.002 to 0.005 µg/kg 1 item
  4. Target LOQ 0.01 ng/kg TEQ 1 item
  5. 0.2 µg/kg each 1 item
  6. Reporting limit 5 mg/kg nitrate, 1 mg/kg nitrite 1 item
  7. 2.5 ng/L each toxin 1 item
  8. 0.1 µg/kg per aflatoxin, 0.04 µg/kg OA 1 item
  9. 50 µg/kg 1 item
  10. 40 µg/kg for fumonisin B1; 20 µg/kg for fuminisin B2 and B3; 80 µg/kg total fumonisin 1 item
  11. 0.2 µg/kg 1 item
  12. 5 µg/kg 1 item
  13. 5 µg/kg each toxin 2 items
  14. 10 µg/kg 3 items
  15. 0.2 µg/kg aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, G2; 0.8 µg/kg total aflatoxin 1 item
  16. Plant Material - 0.3 µg/kg aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, G2; 1.2 µg/kg total aflatoxin to 0.8 µg/kg aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, G2; 3.2 µg/kg total aflatoxin (matrix dependent) 1 item
  17. Reporting limit 150 µg/kg Coffee & Coffee Substitutes 1 item
  18. Reporting limits range from 0.002-0.01 mg/kg 1 item
Standard Turnaround Time
  1. 5 working days 1 item
  2. 10 working days 10 items
  3. 15 working days 3 items
  4. 20 working days 9 items
Supported Analytes
  1. 2-MCPD Esters 1 item
  2. 3-MCPD Esters 1 item
  3. [Al] Aluminium 2 items
  4. [Sb] Antimony 2 items
  5. [As] Arsenic 2 items
  6. [Ba] Barium 2 items
  7. [Be] Beryllium 2 items
  8. [Bi] Bismuth 2 items
  9. [Cd] Cadmium 2 items
  10. [Cs] Caesium 2 items
  11. [Ca] Calcium 2 items
  12. [Ce] Cerium 2 items
  13. [Cr] Chromium 2 items
  14. [Co] Cobalt 2 items
  15. [Cu] Copper 2 items
  16. [Dy] Dysprosium 2 items
  17. [Er] Erbium 2 items
  18. [Eu] Europium 2 items
  19. Fumonisin B1 1 item
  20. Fumonisin B2 1 item
  21. Fumonisin B3 1 item
  22. [Gd] Gadolinium 2 items
  23. [Ga] Gallium 2 items
  24. [Ge] Germanium 2 items
  25. Glycidyl Esters 1 item
  26. [AU] Gold 2 items
  27. [Hf] Hafnium 2 items
  28. [Ho] Holmium 2 items
  29. [Ir] Iridium 2 items
  30. [Fe] Iron 2 items
  31. [La] Lanthanum 2 items
  32. [Pb] Lead 2 items
  33. [Lu] Lutetium 2 items
  34. [Mg] Magnesium 2 items
  35. [Mn] Manganese 2 items
  36. [Hg] Mercury 2 items
  37. [Mo] Molybdenum 2 items
  38. [Nd] Neodymium 2 items
  39. [Ni] Nickel 2 items
  40. [Nb] Niobium 2 items
  41. [Os] Osmium 2 items
  42. [Pd] Palladium 2 items
  43. [P] Phosphorus 2 items
  44. [Pt] Platinum 2 items
  45. [K] Potassium 2 items
  46. [Pr] Praseodymium 2 items
  47. [Re] Rhenium 2 items
  48. [Rh] Rhodium 2 items
  49. [Rb] Rubidium 2 items
  50. [Ru] Ruthenium 2 items
  51. [Sm] Samarium 2 items
  52. [Sc] Scandium 2 items
  53. [Se] Selenium 2 items
  54. [Si] Silicon 2 items
  55. [Ag] Silver 2 items
  56. [Na] Sodium 2 items
  57. [Sr] Strontium 2 items
  58. [S] Sulphur 2 items
  59. [Ta] Tantalum 2 items
  60. [Te] Tellurium 2 items
  61. [Tb] Terbium 2 items
  62. [Tl] Thallium 2 items
  63. [Th] Thorium 2 items
  64. [Tm] Thulium 2 items
  65. [Sn] Tin 2 items
  66. [Ti] Titanium 2 items
  67. [W] Tungsten 2 items
  68. [U] Uranium 2 items
  69. [V] Vanadium 2 items
  70. [Yb] Ytterbium 2 items
  71. [Y] Yttrium 2 items
  72. Zearalenone 1 item
  73. [Zn] Zinc 2 items
  74. [Zr] Zirconium 2 items
Supported Sample Types
  1. Animal Feed 11 items
  2. Baby Food 11 items
  3. Bacon 1 item
  4. Baked Beans 1 item
  5. Baked Products 4 items
  6. Beef 8 items
  7. Beer 2 items
  8. Beverages 4 items
  9. Blood 4 items
  10. Capsicum spices 1 item
  11. Cereal Based Foods 14 items
  12. Cereals 11 items
  13. Chicken 8 items
  14. Chocolate (Powder) - 200g 2 items
  15. Chocolate (Whole/Liquid) 2 items
  16. Cocoa powder 1 item
  17. Coconut (fresh and desiccated) 2 items
  18. Coffee 3 items
  19. Coffee surrogates 2 items
  20. Confectionary 4 items
  21. Dairy Products 4 items
  22. Dried Fruit 3 items
  23. Eggs 1 item
  24. Fish 2 items
  25. Fish & Seafood 3 items
  26. Fish (Including Shellfish) 2 items
  27. Flours 4 items
  28. Food & Beverage 1 item
  29. Food Sample 4 items
  30. Food Supplements 1 item
  31. Fruit & Vegetables 3 items
  32. Fruit (Including Concentrate, Dried, Fresh, Juice, Purée) 4 items
  33. Grasses 4 items
  34. Health Supplements 8 items
  35. Hens Eggs 4 items
  36. Herbal Infusions 1 item
  37. Herbs 1 item
  38. Herbs & Spices 4 items
  39. Herbs & Teas 4 items
  40. Honey 4 items
  41. Infant formula 7 items
  42. Lamb 8 items
  43. Maize 1 item
  44. Meat Substitutes 4 items
  45. Milk (Cattle) 3 items
  46. Nuts, nut butters or peanut meal 7 items
  47. Oils & Fats 7 items
  48. Oily Fish (Including Canned) 2 items
  49. Olives 1 item
  50. Other (Check with Fera) 20 items
  51. Packaging 1 item
  52. Pig Kidney 1 item
  53. Pig Liver 1 item
  54. Pig Muscle 1 item
  55. Plant Material 1 item
  56. Plant Material 3 items
  57. Plasma 3 items
  58. Pollen Products 1 item
  59. Pork 8 items
  60. Preserves, Spreads & Sauces 2 items
  61. Raw Shellfish 2 items
  62. Ready Meals (Including Desserts) 2 items
  63. Sediment 2 items
  64. Smoked Fish 2 items
  65. Smoked Meats 1 item
  66. Snacks 1 item
  67. Soils 1 item
  68. Soils 4 items
  69. Soy Sauce & Related Products 1 item
  70. Spices 1 item
  71. Spices 2 items
  72. Sugars, Flavours & Fragrances 4 items
  73. Teas 1 item
  74. Urine 3 items
  75. Vegetables (Including Concentrate, Dried, Fresh, Juice, Purée) 4 items
  76. Water 3 items
  77. White Fish 3 items
  78. Wine or Grape Juice 1 item
  79. Wood 2 items
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