Residue Analysis Laboratory

What is Residue / Contaminant?
Residue: In the processes of obtaining food and reaching our table;
applied for any purpose,
Deterioration or remaining intact depending on the conditions after the application,
Substances that must be controlled for the final amount remaining in the product are, called residues.

Contaminant: In the processes of obtaining food and reaching our table;
• Environment or production-processing-storage area, etc. contaminating food with
• Contaminations that are undesirable and generally have harmful/toxic effects in the product.
What are the main residues and contaminants?
• Agricultural / Veterinary drugs (residue),
• Hormones (residue)
• Heavy metals (contaminant)
• Substances that pass from packaging materials to the product (contaminant),
• Dioxin, furan, PCB, etc. (contaminant) are the main ones.

The most important problems encountered in agriculture and animal husbandry are; pesticides, veterinary drugs, hormones, antibiotics and their derivatives that are used unconsciously. As a result of exceeding the legal limits determined both in our country and in Europe, pesticides, veterinary drugs, hormones and antibiotics leave residues in plants and animal products, and this threatens both human and animal health. Detection of such residues entails a high technological investment.