Organic contaminants are undesirable, harmful substances, which are found at trace level 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 BNP can help
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.
Relevant products
Food
- 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
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- 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
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Non-Food
- Feed
- Pet food
- Packaging materials
Specific analyses
BNP offers a wide variety of analyses of organic contaminants
- 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD) and 2- and 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol esters (2- and 3-MCPD esters)
- 4-methylimidazole (4-MI)
- Acrolein
- Acrylamide
- Chlorate, perchlorate
- Chlorophenols, such as pentachlorophenol (PCP)
- Dichloropropanols (DCP)
- Dicyandiamide (DCD)
- Disinfectants, e.g. quaternary ammonium compounds, such as DDAC and BAC
- Ethyl carbamate
- Formaldehyde
- Furans
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- Glycidyl esters
- Illegal dyes: sudan dyes and other illegal dyes
- Melamine and other structurally related compounds such as cyanuric acid, ammelide and ammeline
- Mineral Oil Saturated Hydrocarbons (MOSH), Mineral Oil Aromatic Hydrocarbons (MOAH) and Polyolefin Oligomeric Saturated Hydrocarbons (POSH)
- Nicotine
- Plasticisers, such as phthalates / adipates
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)
- Residual solvents (such as BTEX and VCH).
- Semicarbazide (SEM), photoinitiators (isopropyl thioxanthone: ITX; 2-ethylhexyl 4-dimethylaminobenzoate: EHDAB)
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