Eurofins Strengthens Its Comprehensive Food Testing Offering in Japan Through the Acquisition of QSAI Analysis and Research Center Co.,Ltd.

Regulatory News:

Eurofins Scientific (EUFI.PA) (Paris:ERF), the global leader in food testing and a global scientific leader in bioanalytical testing, announces the signing of an agreement to acquire a majority stake in QSAI Analysis and Research Center Co.,Ltd. (“QARC”).

QARC was founded in 2013 as a spin-off from QSAI’s R&D center and has been consistently developing pesticide screening and other food testing capabilities for 20 years, serving an extensive customer base in the food, wholesale and retail industries as well as institutions and governments. QARC is recognised as one of the leading private pesticide testing laboratories in Japan, offering the largest portfolio of over 800 pesticide screening tests covering a variety of complex food matrices. QARC employs 80 people in its laboratories in Fukuoka and Nagoya and is accredited against ISO/IEC 17025 and The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW).

The acquisition of QARC will complement the Eurofins network’s extensive food testing capabilities with pesticide, veterinary drug, foreign object and sensory testing services. The acquisition will further strengthen Eurofins’ presence in Japan and the Eurofins network’s offering to customers importing and exporting food products.

About Eurofins – the global leader in bio-analysis

Eurofins is Testing for Life. Eurofins is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing, and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience Contract Research services. Eurofins is also a market leader in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in BioPharma Contract Development and Manufacturing. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

With over 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 940 laboratories in 59 countries, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of a wide range of products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services and in-vitro diagnostic products.

The Group’s objective is to provide its customers with high-quality services, innovative solutions and accurate results on time. Eurofins is ideally positioned to support its clients’ increasingly stringent quality and safety standards and the increasing demands of regulatory authorities as well as the requirements of healthcare practitioners around the world.