EN 12393-1 Test Standard for Plant Origin Foods, Multiple Residue Methods for Determination of Pesticide Residues by GC or LC-MS-MS

EUROLAB laboratory provides testing and compliance services within the scope of EN 12393-1 standard. This European standard gives general considerations for the determination of pesticide residues in food of plant origin.

Each method specified in this European standard is suitable for identifying and measuring a specific range of organohalogen or organophosphorus or organonitrogen pesticides that occur as residues in foodstuffs of plant origin.

This European standard includes the following methods that have been subjected to interlaboratory studies or adopted throughout Europe:

Method M: Extraction with acetone and splitting with dichloromethane/light petroleum;
Method N: Extraction with acetone, liquid partitioning with dichloromethane or cyclohexane/ethyl acetate, and purification by gel permeation and silica gel chromatography;
Method P: Extraction with ethyl acetate and, if necessary, purification by gel permeation chromatography.

The applicability of the three M, N and P methods for residue analysis of organohalogen, organophosphorus and organonitrogen pesticides, respectively, is given for each method.

EUROLAB assists manufacturers with EN 12393-1 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories. Thanks to these services, businesses receive more effective, high-performance and quality testing services and provide safe, fast and uninterrupted service to their customers.