Food & Seafood Contaminant Testing
Environmental contaminants are increasingly influencing food safety, particularly in seafood where bioaccumulation and aquatic exposure pathways create heightened risk. SGS provides advanced analytical testing services to support food and seafood safety, regulatory compliance, environmental monitoring, and risk assessment.
Our laboratories deliver ultra-trace analysis providing defensible data across complex matrices including food, tissue, water, sediment, soil, wastewater, biosolids, and food contact materials. We support both pre-regulatory monitoring programs and compliance with newly regulated compounds.
Emerging contaminants are recognized as potential environmental and human health concerns. SGS specializes in low-level detection, long-term monitoring studies, and complex analytical scopes, supporting occurrence assessments, fate and transport studies, and regulatory readiness.
Contaminants enter food systems through:
- Surface and groundwater
- Soil and sediment
- Waste streams and biosolids
- Atmospheric deposition
- Food processing and packaging materials
Key analyte groups include:
- PFAS
- Microplastics
- Dioxins and furans
- Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs)
- 6PPD-quinone (6PPDQ)
- Chemicals migrating from food contact materials
