Food safety
Together, let’s ensure
consumer safety
Protect your products and your brand with Phytocontrol’s long-standing expertise. We carry out comprehensive COFRAC-accredited analyses to detect pesticides, mycotoxins, dioxins and contaminants, while guaranteeing optimised turnaround times.
We develop tailor-made methods and digital solutions to secure your production and manage your compliance with complete peace of mind.
Products
Find the analyses suited to your sector
Tailor-made analysis solutions for all food industry sectors
Wines & Spirits
Cereal products
Fruit & Vegetables
Oilseeds & Oleaginous fruits / Oils
Spices, teas, herbal infusions
Dairy, meat, seafood & egg products
Bee products
Processed foods
Plant extracts, essential oils, PPAM (perfume, aromatic and medicinal plants)
Juices & Beverages
Infant food
Animal feed
Innovation & Methods
Our expertise
Analyses
We offer analyses to check the regulatory compliance of your foodstuffs.
Pesticides
Phytocontrol analyses more than 850 active substances and metabolites.
- Regulatory analyses
- Multi-residue analyses by GC-MS/MS & LC-MS/MS screening
- Multi-residue analyses by hydrolysis
- Single-residue analyses
- Targeted analyses adapted to your matrix
- Custom analyses
Heavy metals
- Lead, cadmium, nickel, mercury, copper, arsenic…
- Arsenic speciation
- Mercury speciation
- Fluorine assay
Mycotoxins
Ochratoxin A, aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1, G2, M1), deoxynivalenol, fumonisins (B1 + B2), patulin, T2 and HT2 toxins, alternaria toxins, zearalenone…
Alkaloids
- Ergot alkaloids
- Datura alkaloids (tropane)
- Pyrrolizidine alkaloids
- Chaconine and solanine
- Piperine
- Capsaicinoids
GMOs
- Marker analyses: bar, FMV, NPTII, P35S, TNOS
- Detection and quantification of more than 85 GMO events
PFAS
PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS, PFNA and their sum
Dioxin
- PCDD/PCDF
- Sum of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs
- Sum of non-dioxin-like PCBs
Allergen
Identification and quantification of the 14 allergens subject to mandatory labelling
Authenticity
- Identification of adulteration (substitution, concealment, dilution, mislabelling)
- Identification of meat, fish, plant and fruit species, and microbiota
Contaminants formed during processing (PAH, MCPD, Acrylamide)
- PAH
- 3-MCPD, 3-MCPB fatty acid esters, glycidol fatty acid esters
- Acrylamide
Microbiology
- Coliform bacteria, escherichia coli, listeria monocytogenes, listeria spp, bacillus cereus, enterobacteria, yeasts and moulds, salmonella spp, e-coli O157…
- Norovirus and hepatitis A
- Identification of bacterial and yeast strains by MALDI-TOF
- Stability control of canned products
Veterinary drug residues
- Multi-residue screening
- Targeted analyses by substance family
- Specific analyses (e.g. chloramphenicol)
- Screening for veterinary drug residues in offal, milk, muscle, eggs and fishery products.
Radioactivity
Detection and quantification of radionuclides (Cs 134, Cs 137, I 131…)
Nutritional values
- Analysis according to regulatory labelling (1169/2011)
- Physico-chemical analyses (acid value, peroxide value, minerals, colourings, additives…)
Other contaminants (Perchlorates, Nitrates, Nitrites)
Mineral oils

Our regulatory team supports you in assessing the compliance of your products, providing daily monitoring of applicable regulations and directives, draft texts and standards.
Our experts Céline and Aurélie are here to help.
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Audit
Carry out an auditA comprehensive quality audit to assess your production practices and ensure your products’ compliance. Our experts will provide tailored recommendations to optimise your processes and reduce risks.
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Traceability
Discover our toolWe help you implement effective traceability systems to ensure transparency throughout the grain production chain. You can track each batch from cultivation to final use.
Beyond analysis
Our training courses
Recommended training courses
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Contaminant analysis
Master chemical contaminants and their impact on product safety.
7 hoursRegistration -
Allergen analysis
Master the risks associated with food allergens.
7 hoursRegistration
support
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We support you from order to delivery of results.
We offer 3 levels of support:
Questions about our analyses or your project?
Our advisors respond within 24 hours. Tell us about your needs.
Accreditations
Our accreditations
Our laboratories are COFRAC-accredited to ISO 17025.