Do you need control materials to validate your methods or carry out your quality control?

In addition to organizing proficiency testing schemes, we provide you with leftover samples from proficiency testing rounds in the agri-food and environmental fields. These are available for laboratories that wish to develop internal quality controls with safe samples. All of them come with a certificate that includes:

  • Assigned value and associated uncertainty, and the number of laboratories assigning it
  • Details about the nature of the sample, representative of the matrices commonly analyzed

GSCMEAT 2023

Saxon chop

Nutritional composition of foods

M1A: Water activity, Ashes, Total phosphorus (mg/kg P2O5), Fat, Saturated fats, Carbohydrates, Hydroxyproline, Moisture, pH (uph), Crude protein, Salt, Sodium, Energy value (kcal/100g)

M1B: Nitrates (mg/kg sodium nitrate)

GSCMPA-2 2023

Fresh spinach

Heavy metals in foods

M1: Arsenic (mg/kg), Cadmium (mg/kg), Copper (mg/kg), Chromium (mg/kg), Tin (mg/kg), Iron (mg/kg), Mercury (mg/kg), Lead (mg/kg), Selenium (mg/kg), Zinc (mg/kg)

GSCNU 2024

Prepared dish (Chickpea salad)

Nutritional composition in foods

M1: Total sugars (% w/w), Calcium (mg/100g)*, Ashes (% w/w), Energy (kcal/100g)*, Dietary fiber (% w/w)*, Total phosphorus (mg/100g)*, Crude fat with prior hydrolysis (% w/w), Saturated fats (% w/w)*, Metabolizable carbohydrates (% w/w)*(2), Total carbohydrates (% w/w)*(2), Moisture (% w/w)(1), Crude protein (N × 6.25) (% w/w), Sodium (mg/100g)

GSCRES-2/2024

Olive paste

M1: Acetamiprid (µg/kg), Benalaxyl (µg/kg), Bromopropylate (µg/kg), Carbaryl (µg/kg), Cypermethrin (µg/kg), Chlorpyrifos (µg/kg), Chlorpyrifos-methyl (µg/kg), Deltamethrin (µg/kg), Difenoconazole (µg/kg), Diuron (µg/kg), Etion (µg/kg), Kresoxim-methyl (µg/kg), Linuron (µg/kg), Malathion (µg/kg), Methidathion (µg/kg), Methomyl (µg/kg), Pirimicarb (µg/kg), Prometryn (µg/kg), Propamocarb (µg/kg), Propoxur (µg/kg)(1), Simazine (µg/kg), Tebuconazole (µg/kg), Tetradifon (µg/kg), Thiabendazole (µg/kg), Thiacloprid (µg/kg), Vinclozolin (µg/kg)