Functional Beverages
The network of Eurofins laboratories is your partner and we understand the unique challenges and diversity associated with functional beverages. If you are producing or selling beverages with added functional ingredients, it will be important that you verify levels of actives and match your nutritional or dietary supplement facts panel. Our teams of scientists have the expertise to analyze your raw ingredients for purity, identity, and contaminants, and then confirm their content in a beverage post processing and through shelf life.
Our national network of ISO 17025 accredited laboratories can support you throughout the entire product lifecycle by verifying your label claims, to shelf life and stability testing, ingredient and product testing, as well as consulting on regulatory and product development needs. In addition, we offer our real-time results platform to simplify ordering testing and obtaining results.
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Functional Beverage Types
- Sports & Energy Drinks
- Protein Drinks
- Health & Wellness Drinks
- Hydration Drinks
- Liquid Dietary Supplement Drinks with vitamins, minerals, and botanical extracts
- CBD/Hemp Drinks
- Powdered Drink Blends and Pre-Mixes
- New & Novel
Support You Need
- Product Development
- Label Claim & Ingredient Verification
- Challenge Studies and Stress Testing
- Nutritional Testing & Label
- Chemical and Elemental Contaminant Screening
- Microbiology Testing
- Environmental Monitoring
- Allergen & GMO Testing
- Product Investigations and Litigation Support
Probiotics & Fermented Beverages
Kombuchas, Kefirs, and other probiotic and fermented beverages require special attention as these types of matrices contain complex microbiological environments requiring special testing methods. Eurofins is proud to be a leading testing laboratory for probiotic testing, partnering with many probiotic suppliers to run strain-specific enumeration procedures.
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- Microbiological Testing
- Spoilage Investigations
- Competing Organisms Investigations
- Microbiome Studies
- Contaminant Screenings
- Shelf Life Studies
- Ingredient Verification
- Off Flavor or Off Odor Investigations
- Process Validations
- Product Development
- Nutritional Profiling & Labeling
- Allergens & GMO
- Environmental Monitoring
Juices & Soft Drinks
Juices, juice-based drinks, and soft drinks pose unique challenges compared to other beverages. With the use of a variety of processes such as cold fill, pasteurization, aseptic, and high pressure processing (HPP) combined with varying levels of natural juices, sugars/sweeteners, and acidulants a lot of problems can arise. Seeking assistance from a third-party juice testing laboratory can boost both safety and quality of your finished products in order to protect your brand.
Our scientists have been supporting the industry for over 30 years with a variety of services. Check out some of our most requested services below and reach out to us to see how we can help! Need something that you don't see below? Contact us about our additional capabilities.
- Juice Authenticity
- Microbiological Testing (Including Alicyclobacillus testing and Heat Resistant Mold detection)
- Challenge Testing
- Spoilage Investigations
- Contaminant Screenings (ex. Pesticides, Heavy Metals, Patulin, Sulfites)
- Shelf Life Studies
- Ingredient Verification
- Off Flavor or Off Odor Investigations
- Process Validations
- Product Development
- Nutritional Profiling & Labeling
- Allergens and GMOs
- Environmental Monitoring
- Process Authority
Milks & Creamers
Animal-Based
Eurofins' network of dairy laboratories boasts 70 years of experience testing animal-based milks and creamers utilizing the most advanced and efficient wet chemistry techniques at our ISO 17025 accredited laboratories. Click here to learn more about our solutions for dairy customers.
Plant-Based
Plant-based beverages are still on the rise and you will want to make sure you have a robust food safety and quality plan to protect your brand. With a large portfolio of validated methods, our teams of scientists are ready to provide you fast, accurate, and convenient solutions that fit your needs.
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- Protein, Amino Acids, and PDCAAS
- Omegas and Full Fatty Acid Profiles
- Sugar Profiles
- Vitamins and Minerals
- Anti-nutrients
- Nutritional Labeling
- Contaminants such as Heavy Metals, Pesticides, and Aflatoxins
- Product Development
- Allergens and GMOs
- Routine Microbiology and Special Studies
- Environmental Monitoring
- Shelf Life and Stability
Coffee & Tea
Today, coffee and tea are not only simply brewed. Advances in technology have lead to various others forms we can enjoy these beverages with aseptic, high pressure processing (HPP), cold-brew, spray-dried, ready-to-drink, among others. However, newer technologies mean testing is necessary to ensure consumers enjoy safe products that meet your regulatory and quality standards.
Eurofins network of laboratories has developed numerous analytical methods for providing reliable and highly sensitive detection and quantification of contaminants such as acrylamide, pesticides, mycotoxins, and heavy metals. Our methods and personnel are certified, approved, or accredited by expert organizations, including A2LA, AOCS, FOSFAL, and GAFTA, which enables us to provide the most consistent results for your coffee and tea products. In addition, our US Tea Association membership ensures Eurofins stays at the forefront of the specific testing needs of the industry.
Eurofins is a proud partner of the National Coffee Association. We offer an exclusive discount to NCA members.
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Check out some of our most asked for services below! Need a service that you don't see? Contact us about our additional capabilities.
- Ingredient Verification
- Shelf Life and Stability Testing
- Routine Microbiology (ex. Salmonella, Yeast and Mold)
- Special Microbial Studies
- Environmental Monitoring
- Contaminants Such as Heavy Metals, Pesticides, Acrylamide
- Product Development
- Allergens
- GMO Screening
- Nutritional Panel and Label Generation
Alcoholic Beverages
Eurofins' network of laboratories offers unique services to support beer, wine, and spirits. Check out these scenarios below in which we were able to support our customers with alcoholic beverage testing.
- "I am based in the wine region of California. I would like to test for smoke residue on my grape to verify their quality as the recent fires have affected my region."
- "I would like to do a quick test of proximates as I'm formulating."
- "I would like to verify my raw materials and produce before producing my batch."
- "I need to test for contaminants like heavy metals."
- "Something tastes really off. I would like to find out what is causing that."
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