Our History
Eurofins Scientific was founded in 1987 with 4 employees to market the SNIF-NMRâ technology, a patented analytical method used to verify the origin and purity of several types of food and beverages and identify sophisticated fraud not detectable by other methods. Today the Eurofins Group is a leading provider of analytical services with:
- an international network of more than 900 laboratories across 61 countries in Europe, North and South America and Asia-Pacific
- over 61,000 staff
- a portfolio of over 200,000 validated analytical methods
- more than 450 million tests performed each year to establish the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability, and purity of biological substances and products, as well as carry out human diagnostic services.
Eurofins' history can be divided up into four distinct phases:
- Start-up Phase
- Expanding the Technology Portfolio
- Establishing the Infrastructure
- Becoming a Global Reference