Heavy metal testing

Heavy metal testing?

Some metals are also essential to the human body, helping to transport oxygen from the lungs to the tissues; promote the metabolism of substances in the body, stimulating damaged cells to recover; is a catalyst that stimulates the absorption of vitamins; strengthen bones, strengthen heart, stabilize blood pressure,…

These heavy metals are toxic to most living organisms when concentrations are exceeded. Accumulating heavy metals over a long period of time can lead to many harmful effects such as:

Lead has a very low acute toxicity. The most essential long-term effects are its neurotoxicity for infants and its effects on the cardiovascular tissue of adults.
Cadmium is primarily nephrotoxic and may cause bone demineralization.
Mercury mainly occurs as methyl mercury in fish and seafood and is extremely toxic to the nervous system. Other foods usually contain less toxic inorganic mercury.
Arsenic also occurs in organic and inorganic compounds, of which the latter is clearly more toxic and may cause cancer of the skin, lungs, and urinary tract.

Regulations to control heavy metal content in food

Each country has regulations on the maximum amount of toxic heavy metals in food, for example:

QCVN 8-2:2011/BYT limits heavy metal pollution in food
QCVN 12-1:2011/BYT, QCVN 12-2:2011/BYT, QCVN 12-3:2011/BYT QCVN 12-4:2015/BYT regulate metals in packaging and food contact materials such as plastic, rubber, metal, glass, ceramic
QCVN 01:2018/BYT National technical regulation on quality of clean water used for domestic purposes
QCVN 03-MT:2015/BTNMT Limit of heavy metals in soil
EU regulation on heavy metals in food: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 of 19 December 2006 setting maximum levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs (Text with EEA relevance)
New EU regulation on Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd) content in food: Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/1317 of 9 August 2021 amending Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 as regards maximum levels of lead in certain foodstuffs (Text with EEA relevance)

Heavy metal testing at Eurofins Sac Ky Hai dang

As a leading laboratory in food and environmental testing, Eurofins Sac Ky Hai Dang is able to analyze most metals contained in national and international regulations. Meet a variety of food, feed and environmental samples.

With modern equipment such as AAS, ICP-MS, techniques GF-AAS, F-AAS, CV-AAS, HG-AS for heavy metal testing, and a team of experienced technicians develop methods that meet national and international standards such as ISO, AOAC, TCVN, etc.

Besides the usual criteria (arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury,...) we can also analyze difficult criteria, based on complex samples:

Chromium (Cr), Selenium (Se), Molybdenum (Mo), Iodine (I) in milk
Inorganic Arsenic, Organic Arsenic in Fish Sauce and Meat
Methyl mercury in food

Why choose Eurofins Sac Ky Hai Dang for heavy metal testing?

Eurofins Sac Ky Hai Dang is an independent testing laboratory with more than 10 certificates from the BOA and the governmental competent authorities such as the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Natures Resources and Environment.

Eurofins Sac Ky Hai Dang is ISO 17025:2017 certified for heavy metal analysis in food in general and special types of products such as milk and dairy products, animal feed, domestic water, food additives, packaging, water, and soil.

With the most advanced technology today, the analytical methods at Eurofins always bring outstanding efficiency such as:

Fast and accurate test, results in 4 hours
Small detection limit, high sensitivity
Analyze multiple metallic elements at the same time.
Analyze even special elements such as iodine, bromine, sulfur, silicon with high specificity and accuracy.
Less background influence, ability to handle both simple and complex backgrounds, low background noise thanks to the extremely high temperature of the ICP source
Able to identify isotopic elements

Not only that, but every year Eurofins Sac Ky Hai Dang participates in interlaboratory comparison testing of prestigious ISO 17043:2010 accredited organizations such as Fapas, Quatest 3, LGC,... to ensure analytical results are always the most reliable and maintain the capacity of the laboratory.

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