Analysis of food and dietary supplements

The food supplement expert at your side

As a specialist in the field of food supplements, Eurofins Food & Feed Testing laboratories in Germany offer you comprehensive advice and support for every development and production step of your product: The spectrum ranges from formulation testing, analytical determinations and stability studies, and label and marketability testing to the necessary attestations and certificates. Here, we develop overall solutions, individually tailored to your company and your products, for example in the form of product-specific test plans.

Our analysis and service offer for food supplements

Food supplements are products with a nutritional or physiological effect, which can contribute to an increased supply to the human metabolism with certain nutrients/active substances (e.g. vitamins, minerals, amino acids, trace elements, secondary plant substances, etc.).

The analytical examination of food supplements is an elementary part of quality control, with which you can ensure both the health safety of your products and the correctness of the ingredients the product claims to contain.

In addition to the admissibility of the ingredients used, there may be other hurdles and pitfalls, e.g. in the correct labeling of your food supplements and the use of health claims. We check the marketability of your products in every respect.

Certificates and attestations

Whether you manufacture your own food supplement products or purchase them from a contract manufacturer, you are ultimately responsible for ensuring the safety of your products. We not only support you in this regard with appropriate testing and consulting, but can also prepare various expert opinions for you, with the help of which you can document your mandatory due diligence.

Especially in the area of online trade with food supplements, the platform providers (e.g. Amazon) usually also expect meaningful confirmations that you only put safe products into circulation. Of course, we also offer you customized solutions and certificates for this. Here you will find a detailed overview of our various certificates and attestations for the non-alcoholic food sector as well as their possible applications.

Food supplements efficacy studies in the area of skin and hair

In the field of food supplements, advertising promises of a positive effect on skin and hair are made time and again. We can support you in the form of efficacy proofs to analytically substantiate such advertising claims. We are at your side from study planning to the final report and can determine effects on skin physiological parameters, skin structure and hair quality using modern dermatological test methods.

Eurofins Food Legislation News

The Eurofins Food Legislation News are published every two months, focusing on innovations in food legislation and interesting court rulings. Here you will find, among other things, information worth knowing about food supplements on a regular basis as well as a selected overview of important RASFF rapid alerts.

Relevant legal bases and guidelines

Our experts have many years of experience in food law consultation and always keep an eye on new legal developments for you.
The following legal texts may be of interest to you:

• Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Food Information Regulation)
• Verordnung über Nahrungsergänzungsmittel (NemV)(Regulation on food supplements - in German)
• Directive 2002/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
• Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Novel-Food-Regulation)
• Regulation (EC) No. 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Food-Additives-Regulation)
• Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Health-Claims-Regulation)
• Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915 (Contaminants-Regulation)

Memberships and approvals of individual Eurofins laboratories

• Arbeitskreis Nahrungsergänzungsmittel (AK NEM) im Lebensmittelverband Deutschland

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