Eurofins Scientific SE is a French group of laboratories headquartered in Luxembourg, providing testing and support services to the pharmaceutical, food, environmental, agriscience and consumer products industries[1][4] and to governments.
Eurofins Group has an international network of over 900 laboratories in 62 countries and a portfolio of over 200,000 validated analytical methods for characterizing the safety, identity, purity, composition, authenticity and origin of products and biological substances.
Eurofins derived the "fins" of its name from the French version of SNIF-NMR: Fractionnement Isotopique Naturel Spécifique par Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire or FINS-RMN.
[6] From 1997, Eurofins' strategy was to acquire state-of-the-art laboratories with unique technologies, scientific expertise and potential for global growth.
As Eurofins' revenues reached €7 million, its IPO on the Paris Stock Exchange helped fund the organization's rapid geographic expansion.
[26] Eurofins acquired MET Labs on 11 January 2018, which enabled the network to have a Nationally Recognized Test Laboratory as established by OHSA.
[30] Eurofins acquired Japanese genetics analysis company GeneTech, a leader in the specialist field of non-invasive pre-natal testing in August 2020.
[33] Eurofins announced the acquisition of the American DNA Diagnostics Centers (DDC), a group specializing in genetic testing, in June 2021.