Phytocontrol passes its COFRAC audit and extends its scope of accreditation

The central and historical laboratory of Nîmes and the Phytocontrol Proxilab in Brittany have greeted COFRAC assessors for the accreditation of the new methods of analysis and the monitoring of current methods in the Agrifood and Hydrology departments.

We passed! The auditors of the French Accreditation Committee, who came in large numbers to cover all the analytical services, gave their confidence in the fields evaluated, a guarantee of expertise and high quality of the Laboratory.

Thus, Phytocontrol widens its fields of competence and becomes the first accredited laboratory in France on cosmetic allergens.

Another pledge of excellence and expertise of the biotechnology and contaminants poles, COFRAC has also given its confidence in the extension of GMO species and drug residues with new accredited methods notably on honey.

The audits allowed Phytocontrol to integrate new analyses in fixed and flexible scopes, in order to extend its pool of accredited analyses :

AGRIFOOD

GMO Rapeseed :
Rapeseed species DNA (CRUA)*
Markers: P35S*, TNOS*
The orphan event: 73496*
The events: MON 88302*, MS1*, MS8*, RF1*, RF2*, RF3*, RT/GT 73*, T45*, TOPAS 19/2*, DP073496-4*

Cosmetic allergens :
Determination of allergens in LC-MS/MS: Citral, Geraniol, Cinnamal (Cinnamaldehyde), Hydroxycitronellal, Anise alcohol (4-methoxybenzyl alcohol), Atranol, Chloratranol.

Determination of allergens in GC-MS/MS : Limonene, Benzyl alcohol, Methyl 2-octynoate, Citronellol, Anise alcohol (Anisic alcohol (4-methoxybenzyl alcohol), Cinnamyl alcohol, Eugenol, Isoeugenol, Coumarin, α-Isomethyl ionone, Butylphenyl methylpropional (Lilial), Amyl cinnamal (α-mylcinnamaldehyde), Hydroxyisohexyl 3-cyclohexene carboxylate (Lyral),Hexyl cinnamal (α-Hexylcinnamaldehyde), Benzyl benzoate (Benzyl benzoate),) Amylcinnamyl alcohol (alpha-amylcinnamyl alcohol).

Drug Residues :
Detection of antibiotic-active residues in milk.

Food colorants :
Curcumin and curcuminoids.

Food physico-chemistry :
Determination of total lipid content.

Food microbiology :
Enumeration of yeasts and moulds (surface and depth) in rapid method on matrix. Search for Cronobacter spp

Phycotoxins :
Determination of phycotoxin content :

• Group AO and analogues DTX: AO, DTX1, DTX2, DTX3
• PTX Groupe : PTX1, PTX2, PNTX-G
• AZA Groupe : AZA1, AZA2, AZA3
• YTX Groupe : YTX, 45OHYTX, gay YTX, 45OH gay YTX

HYDROLOGY

Low-volatility lipophilic substances on wastewater matrix

PHYTOCONTROL PROXILAB BRETAGNE

Microbiology
Presumptive bacillus cereus in BKR 23/06-02/10

Find our internal technical scopes :
On the Phytocontrol 1 website : AgriFood
On the Phytocontrol 2 website: Hydrology
On Phytocontrol Proxilab Bretagne website : Agrifood / Hydrology

The details of our new scopes of accreditation are also available on the COFRAC website :
Scope 1-1904
Range 1-6066
Range 1-6634

This favourable outcome is the result of the work of all the laboratory teams, who work every day to ensure the success of Phytocontrol through a reliable, efficient and reactive analytical service.

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