Authenticité

Authentification d’espèces

Vérifier la composition réelle de vos produits.

Phytocontrol offers identification of animal and plant species to detect any substitution or contamination.

Depending on your issue, our experts select the most relevant analytical technology to address your needs with a high level of accuracy.

Phytocontrol Laboratory offers a comprehensive authentication service by technologie NGS, available as five analysis packs, offered individually or combinable according to your needs:

• Pack Viandes
• Pack Poissons
• Pack Plantes
• Pack Fruits
• Pack Microbiote

Le NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) or “next generation sequencing”, is an innovative molecular biology technique (metabarcoding sequencing) that detects, identifies and lists animal or plant components in raw or processed foods against an evolving database. NGS unambiguously identifies every species present in your sample.

Fort de son expertise analytique en PCR en temps réel, Phytocontrol propose aussi l’authentification d’espèces :

• Végétales : Soya, Maize, Rapeseed, Rice, Potato, Flax, Beet, Durum and Common Wheat, Basmati Rice (identification and quantification among the 14 Basmati varieties).
• Animales : Bovin, Porcin, Caprin, Ovin, Volaille, Equin.

Naturalité

Prouver l’origine naturelle de vos ingrédients.

In the food industry, naturalness analysis aims to vérifier que le produit correspond bien à l’origine revendiquée and that it has not been replaced by a synthetic substance or a cheaper alternative. This is a major issue in combating food fraud and ensuring product compliance.

Exemple : Authenticité de la vanille – contrôle isotopique

“I want to know if my vanilla is natural.”

Phytocontrol verifies the naturalness of vanillin to distinguish natural origin from synthetic origin using technologie IRMS.

Isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) is a specialisation of mass spectrometry, in which mass spectrometry methods are used to measure the relative abundance of isotopes in a given sample.

Origine géographique

Démontrer l’origine d’un produit.

“I want to prove that my peach is French.”

The geographical origin of a food is an essential criterion for quality, traceability and value. Given the rise of food fraud and origin substitution, geographical authentication analyses help secure supply chains, protect product value and strengthen customer confidence.

Our laboratory develops tailor-made analytical projects to build reference databases and authenticate the geographical origin of a raw material or processed product: fruit, vegetables, pulses, wines, olive oils, honey, and more. These analyses are carried out by technologie RADIAN or IRMS technology depending on the specific product.

Adultération

Detect blends and substitutions.

“I want to check that my oil has not been mixed with another.”

Adulteration involves fraudulently altering the composition of a food by adding, substituting or mixing an ingredient with a lower-quality or cheaper raw material. These practices can alter the product’s characteristics, mislead consumers and result in regulatory non-compliance.

Phytocontrol offers control of the composition of fats (oils, butters, vegetable fats, chocolate) by technologie GC-FID afin de mettre en évidence toute adultération ou ajout frauduleux.

Example: adulteration of vegetable oils

To detect fraud in your food-grade vegetable oils, Phytocontrol also offers, in addition to the analysis, Profils d’Acides Gras, interpretation of adulteration in simple food-grade oils qui permet de valider ou invalider l’huile ou le mélange de deux huiles.