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Tough food safety standards in Europe demand up-to-the-minute technology. Eurofins - an analyser of the potential carcinogen dioxin - has refined sensitivity for mixed halogenated dioxins.
The company announced that besides the brominated dioxins, the sensitivity for mixed halogenated dioxins has been improved for the first time by a factor of 100, thereby approaching the range already achieved for chlorinated species.
This is a breakthrough, particularly when considering the fact that mixed halogenated dioxins and furans are assumed to have the same toxicity as purely chlorinated equivalents, writes the company.
With the further assumption that - with the corresponding type of input - the probability for the formation of mixed halogenated dioxins in combustion processes is much higher than for purely brominated ones, this development opens another possibility of high sensitive detection of the sums of 5,000 more isomers of dioxins in emission and other matrices, continues the company.
On the road to expansion in dioxin analysis, Eurofins also announced the acquisition of Germany's third largest dioxin laboratory MPU. Together with GfA in Muenster and Wittenberg, Oekometric in Bayreuth, and MPU in Berlin, Eurofins now analyses dioxin and furans in more than 10,000 samples per year.
