Eurofins Analytical Services Hungary has been present on the Hungarian market for 30 years. Our accredited areas of activity include environmental testing, food and feed testing, pharmaceutical analyses, consulting and education, research and development.
 

Eurofins Analytical Services Hungary performs the physical, chemical and microbiological testing of pharmaceutical raw materials and finished products, as well as their stability testing. Analytical and microbiological tests necessary for product release are provided by our GMP laboratory. Products are released by a qualified person (QP), based on the Certificate of Analysis issued by us.

We have decades of experience and outstanding professional skills in the field of testing dietary supplements and foods for particular nutritional uses, with special emphasis on the presence of prohibited substances.

Our accredited tests are fast, accurate, reliable and impartial. Our range of services is unique, as is the fact that we perform analyses in three major areas: environmental protection, food safety and health care. The credibility of our company and the serving of the quality of life are guaranteed by the expertise and the dedication of our staff.

The history of testing dietary supplements for prohibited substances at Eurofins

Dietary supplements and foods for particular nutritional uses have been tested at Eurofins for prohibited substances since 2007. That was the time when the Doping Control Testing Laboratory of the National Institute of Sports Medicine (Sports Hospital), where the tests had been performed earlier, was closed.

A separate laboratory department was established within the Food Safety Business Unit of Eurofins Analytical Services Hungary for this task.
The head of this department had worked in the Doping Control Testing Laboratory of the Sports Hospital from 1992 until 2007, initially as a scientific fellow, then as a scientific associate. In the laboratory, in addition to the doping control tests, she also performed the determination of prohibited substances in dietary supplements. She participated in the compilation of the anti-doping list, as well as in providing information to athletes about the anti-doping list and the composition of dietary supplements.

Since 2007, she’s been regularly participating in the “Doping control” professional training courses of the Hungarian Anti-Doping Group (HUNADO), by presenting lectures on the anti-doping list, doping analysis and the risks of using dietary supplements.
By the end of the 1990s, athletes had been consuming more and more dietary supplements and, consequently, the number of positive doping cases due to their use had been increasing steadily.

At the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, according to international studies on the analysis of dietary supplements, 15 to 20% of the products used by athletes contained anabolic steroids or stimulants as active ingredients, or as contaminants not indicated in the list of ingredients. Unfortunately, even today, certain products still contain substances prohibited for athletes. The use of anabolic steroids and stimulants can result in serious health damages and in addition, in the case of athletes, in positive doping tests. When assessing doping cases, it is not taken into consideration by the anti-doping rules how the prohibited substance got into the athlete’s body.

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