Eurofins WEJ Contaminants is hosting four special areas of expertise for the testing of residues and contaminants, complemented by extensive industry competence particularly in the areas of flavours, spices, food ingredients, agricultural raw materials, animal food and feed.
Fast reliable results, individual consulting and the legal assessment of the results by our specialised experts contribute essentially to safeguarding the quality of your products. Our analytical expertise in residues and contaminants reaches back to 1957. Today, we annually analyse about 250.000 food and feed samples from more than 70 countries for residues and contaminants.
Our high level of automation and latest state-of-the-art methods safeguard the quality of your food and feed products.
In addition to our accreditation according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018, we are designated as an official laboratory according to Article 37 (1) Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and hold further approvals for specific analyses ad industrial sectors. Active participation in scientific working groups and our own R&D team ensure that Eurofins WEJ Contaminants is always at the forefront when new substances come into focus.
Continuous investments in the latest analytical and coupling technologies as well as automation are key factors to constantly providing state-of-the-art methods and ensuring fast turnaround times in the dynamic field of contaminant analysis.
Our analytical expertise reaches across all industries and includes raw food and finished products along with a wide range of analytically complex food and feed products such as additives and ingredients, premixes for dietary supplements and infant food as well as feed products and their premixes.
Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of moulds, which already have toxic effects on vertebrates in the smallest quantities. Depending on specific substances and concentration, they are cancerogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic and immunosuppressive. We offer the examination of a large number of mycotoxins in a great variety of food and feed.
Organic contaminants are undesirable substances of potential health concern that can be found at trace levels in food. They may enter food products at various stages of production, processing, transportation or storage or can be the result of environmental contamination. Whether environmental contaminants, process contaminants, migration residues or other contaminants – we offer you a comprehensive range of services.
Arsenic and the heavy metals lead, cadmium and mercury are apparant in all parts of the environment. They find their way into vegetable food through intake from the soil or water, or atmospheric sediments and even further into animal food. We offer the examination of various metals and trace elements in a great variety of food and feed. Additionally, the analysis of radioactivity in food samples, such as the radionuclide caesium-137, is part of the portfolio.
The EU Commission has established various restrictions on the application of veterinary drugs, ranging from zero tolerance to restrictions on specific animal species and fields of insertion up to tolerable limit values. We offer the examination of numerous veterinary drug residues in a great variety of food and feed. Additionally, we offer advice on sampling and finding the most reasonable scope of analyses.
Organic contaminants
Stefanie Merkmann
Phone: +49 (0)40 492 94-2917
sales-contaminants@ftdach.eurofins.com
Sindy Böhme
Phone: +49 (0)40 492 94-2387
sales-contaminants@ftdach.eurofins.com
Mycotoxins & plant toxins
Carina Kellner
Phone: +49 (0)40 492 94-2921
sales-contaminants@ftdach.eurofins.com
Veterinary drug residues
Roma Nemitz-Sturm
Phone: +49 (0)40 492 94-2937
sales-contaminants@ftdach.eurofins.com
Metals & elements
Andreas Schäfer
Tel: +49 (0)40 492 94-2933
sales-contaminants@ftdach.eurofins.com
Spices and flavours
Dr. Thomas Gronewold
Phone: +49 (0)40 492 94-2906
TeamGA@ftdach.eurofins.com
Egg and poultry
Marion Mandix
Phone: +49 (0)40 492 94-2903
TeamTL@ftdach.eurofins.com
Fish and aquaculture
Marion Mandix
Phone: +49 (0)40 492 94-2903
TeamTL@ftdach.eurofins.com
Food ingredients & additives
Yasmina Knop
Tel: +49 (0)40 492 94-2929
TeamZZ@ftdach.eurofins.com
You can reach us Mon-Fri 8:00-6:00 p.m. In addition, our sample reception is open on Saturdays from 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Due to the flexibilisation of our accreditation according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018, not all analytical methods offered are listed in the annex to our accreditation certificate. A complete list of all accredited methods can be found in the list of test methods.
Meeting the quality objectives of the laboratories of the Eurofins network, Eurofins WEJ Contaminants GmbH provides excellent service, exact results and strict compliance with analytical due dates.
These quality objectives and indicators are under constant control of the central quality management of the global Eurofins laboratory network by means of quality audits. In addition, we regularly participate in a large number of external proficiency tests as well as harmonised and blind proficiency tests of the global Eurofins laboratory network. On average, we take part in about 200 different proficiency tests per year with a very good success rate of around 95%.
The high level of expertise of our employees is guaranteed by regular training and forms together with state-of-the-art laboratory equipment the basis of our high-quality work.
QS Recognition for feed monitoring
Eurofins WEJ Contaminants is QS approved laboratory for feed monitoring
VLOG Recognition - Food without GMO
ecoVadis Sustainability Rating 2025
Silver Medal (Top 15%) for Eurofins WEJ Contaminants
Eurofns WEJ Contaminants GmbH is a member in the following organisations and associations:
