ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS
Organic contaminants are undesirable, harmful substances, which are found at trace levels in foodstuffs. They are not present in food due to a deliberate action, but find their way into it through contact with air, water or soil, enter it during the manufacturing process, or are generated during manufacturing as process contaminants (e.g. acrylamide or 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD)).
Food producers need to ensure that their products are toxicologically safe and in compliance with all legal requirements through the use of analytical testing.
How We Can Help You
Polucon is the global leader in the analysis of organic contaminants, process contaminants, and migration residues. We offer to examine a large number of organic contaminants of anthropogenic origin, process contaminants and migration residues, in a great variety of food and feed.
Food
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· Baby food · Fish,
seafood and aquaculture · Fish meal and
fish oil · Meat and meat products · Egg and poultry
products · Milk and dairy
products · Convenience
products · Nuts and
dried fruits · Fruits and
vegetables · Grains and cereal products · Rice |
· Bakery products · Herbs and spices · Flavours,
oleoresins · Coffee, cocoa · Tea, herbal tea,
fruit tea · Oils and fats,
e.g. olive oils · Food ingredients
and food additives · Soy sauce · Dietary food · Honey · Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages |
Polucon is the African leader in analytical testing, including testing
for organic contaminants, process contaminants, and migration residues.
Our laboratory equipment includes extensive state-of-the-art analytical
equipment for the analysis of organic contaminants. As some of our applied
methods are partly automatized, we are able to offer short turnaround times to
give you a quick assessment of your food and feed samples.
Our laboratory equipment includes the following devices:
Sample preparation
· various
homogenizing tools even for larger sample quantities
Sample extraction and purification
· automatized SPE
· GPC
Analytical devices/Measuring methods
· GC-ECD
· GC-MS systems with
EI or CI options and various injection technologies
· GC-MS/MS systems
· LC-MS/MS systems
· online-HPLC-GC-FID
systems
· Headspace GC-MS
· Online-SPE-GC-MS
