History of Eurofins Scientific
Eurofins Scientific was founded in 1987 and had 4 employees who sought to develop SNIF - NMR technology, a patented analytical method for assessing the origin and authenticity of several types of food and drink.
This methodology allowed the detection of food counterfeiting cases which could not be detected by other methods.
Today, Eurofins companies are a leading analytical service provider with:
- An international network of laboratories consisting of more than 1 000 independent companies with over 900 laboratories in 62 countries.
- ca. 62 000 employees.
- More than 200,000 analytical methods.
- Over 1 million m2 of laboratory premises.
- More than 450 million studies are carried out each year to assess the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, and purity of biological materials and products. Clinical diagnostic testing services are also provided.
We are the world's leading food and feed testing laboratory company that actively checks the safety of foods you like. Whether the end user produces food at home or in a luxury restaurant, our tests confirm that the food, water or feed supplied is safe, authentic and correctly labelled.