Botanical and Natural Ingredient Testing Services

Confidence in the identity, purity, and potency of your herbal ingredients and blends.

Protect your reputation and your brand.

Whether you supply or market botanical ingredients, medicinal herbs, herbal extracts, or natural products, testing to verify raw materials in your supply chain and ensuring your finished products meet their label specifications are important steps to increase customer confidence in your brand. For more than twenty years, the top natural product and consumer health companies have looked to Eurofins as their trusted botanical testing lab to ensure their products are authentic and safe.

Our teams are dedicated to solving problems, providing guidance, and developing tailored solutions that extend beyond test selection. We are committed to accessible customer support and transparency throughout. Allowing you the ability to speak directly to the scientists who perform your tests. We designed our services to put your needs first, and deliver accurate results on time. You have spent years building your brand. It’s our job to help you protect and grow it confidently.

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Botanical Identity Testing

We ensure the authenticity of your herbal ingredients. Product adulteration and mislabeling of natural products and ingredients continue to be a serious issue. First and foremost, you need to be confident of the botanical identification of your ingredients. We use High-Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) as our standard method for botanical identification testing. However, there may be better fit-for-purpose methods depending on the ingredient. We will use the most appropriate scientifically valid method to ensure the accurate botanical identification of your herbal products.

Botanical Potency Testing

We verify the strength of your active ingredients. Not only do you need to be confident in the identity of your ingredients, you need to be confident your product meets all its label claims through botanical strength testing. As a global leader offering phytochemical testing services, our scientists have access to the latest technologies, techniques, and the expertise to ensure the accurate quantification of the analytes on your product label.

Botanical Purity Testing

Our testing programs assure your natural products are free from potential contaminants. Botanical purity testing is paramount to ensure your product is safe for consumers. We can screen for many adulterants and botanical contaminants. The most common are mycotoxins (including Aflatoxins and Ochratoxins), multi-residue pesticides, residual solvents, heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead), and microbiological contamination. Let's work together to ensure your natural products are free from impurities.

Here are some of the botanicals we test daily:

Aloe for aloins
Ashwagandha for withanolides
Bilberry for anthocyanidins
Black Pepper for Piperine
Boswella serrata for boswellic acid
Broccoli sprout for 13C and DIIM
Cocoa for flavanols
Cranberry for proanthocyanidin

Garlic for allicin
Ginger for gingerols and shogaols
Ginkgo leaf for ginkgo flavonoids and ginkgo terpenoids
Ginseng for gensenosides
Grape Seed for oligomeric proanthocyanidin
Green coffee bean for chlorogenic acids
Iuo han guo (Siraitia grosvenorii) for mogroside

Milk Thistle for silymarin
Orange peel for bioflavonoids
Rhodiola rosea for rosavin and salidroside
Soybean for isoflavone
Tea for catechins and caffeine
Turmeric for curcuminoids
Yohimbe for yohimbine

We are science at your service

ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited laboratories
Customizable programs for the most efficient and quality-focused deliverables
Scientifically valid fit-for-purpose testing methods based on your specific needs
More than 800 botanical reference materials available

Your partner in botanical testing. Let's find your solution.