This year again we can look forward to the world's leading trade fair for organic food. Due to the current pandemic, BIOFACH / VIVANESS 2021 will not open its halls as a stationary trade fair, but will be held purely digitally from February 17 - 19, 2021.

Last year we were able to welcome numerous visitors at our booth and this year we are looking forward to welcoming you as a virtual visitor at the eSPECIAL.

In 2019, various nuts were tested for aflatoxins and ochratoxin A in a representative monitoring. Overall, elevated mycotoxin levels were only recorded in a few cases. The mycotoxins aflatoxin and ochratoxin A can already be produced during harvest and transport, but also during storage. Therefore, nuts should be analyzed before import. The GBA Group is your laboratory partner for conform sampling and mycotoxin analysis.

Lavetan, our site in Turnhout offers testing services to the food and livestock industry. Now Lavetan is putting nearly 800 square meters of new laboratory space to use for livestock analyses, with a focus on ELISA and PCR techniques.

The GBA Group is one of thirteen laboratories performing the new and more accurate method for the determination of MOSH/MOAH.

Hygienicum, our site in Graz, has tested the Austrian national team for Covid-19 during games or training sessions in the south of Austria in the course of the Covid pandemic in recent months. As a thank you for their efforts, the Hygienicum team received a club pennant with the signatures of the athletes of the Austrian national team. Hygienicum now made this club pennant available for auction by the Lions Club in Graz.