Contaminants

• Specialist contaminant analysis including:

• Heavy / Toxic Metals
  • Aluminium
  • Arsenic
  • Cadmium
  • Lead
  • Mercury
  • Tin
• Mycotoxins
  • Aflatoxins
  • Deoxynivalenol
  • Ochratoxins
  • Patulin
  • Zearalenone
• Illegal Colours
  • Orange II
  • Para Red
  • Rhodamine
  • Sudan I to IV
• Others
  • Benzo(a)pyrene
  • Melamine
  • Potato glycoalkaloids

Substances which can contaminate foodstuffs range from highly regulated pesticide residues to chance taints which have transferred from packaging materials. The majority of our work in this area relates to testing for heavy or toxic metals residues and mycotoxins such as aflatoxins, ochratoxin, zearalenone and deoxynivalenol.