Industry Report

The 20 Most Common Test Methods in European Accredited Labs

We ranked every canonical test method in the ScopeMatch database by the number of accredited laboratories that hold it. The result is a buyer-friendly map of testing availability across six European countries.

ScopeMatch Research 2026-03-25
10,017
Accredited laboratories
71,917
Canonical capabilities
6
Countries
# Test Method Category Country Breakdown Labs
1
ISO 6222
 Food Safety Testing
IT 555 FR 150 ES 31 DE 18 NL 16 GB 2
772
2
ISO 7899-2
 Food Safety Testing
IT 538 FR 153 ES 30 DE 10 NL 9 GB 1
741
3
ISO 9308-1
 Food Safety Testing
IT 517 FR 140 ES 28 DE 18 NL 13 GB 1
717
4
ISO 11731
 Food Safety Testing
IT 460 DE 80 NL 18 ES 10 GB 7 FR 1
576
5
ISO 16266
 Food Safety Testing
IT 312 FR 136 DE 16 ES 11 NL 3 GB 1
479
6
DIN EN ISO 4833-1
 Food Safety Testing
IT 353 FR 67 DE 28 NL 10
458
7
DIN EN ISO 19458
 Food Safety Testing
DE 316 IT 104 NL 21 FR 8 ES 1
450
8
DIN EN ISO 6579-1
 Food Safety Testing
IT 211 FR 145 DE 51 NL 17 ES 5 GB 2
431
9
DIN EN ISO 10523
 Elemental Analysis
FR 176 IT 132 DE 79 NL 17 GB 1 ES 1
406
10
ISO 4832
 Food Safety Testing
IT 306 ES 40 DE 35 NL 9 GB 4
394
11
DIN EN ISO 10304-1
 Chromatography (GC, HPLC)
IT 207 DE 89 FR 80 NL 13 ES 2
391
12
DIN EN ISO 17294-2
 Spectroscopy (XRF, ICP, AAS)
IT 198 DE 106 FR 65 NL 17
386
13
DIN EN ISO 10523 (C 5)
 Elemental Analysis
DE 379
379
14
ISO 15705
 Elemental Analysis
IT 221 FR 102 ES 49 NL 4 DE 2 GB 1
379
15
ISO 16649-2
 Food Microbiology
IT 261 ES 86 NL 12 DE 10 GB 6
375
16
DIN 38404-C 4
 Temperature / Pressure
DE 374
374
17
DIN EN ISO 11290-1
 Food Safety Testing
IT 175 FR 150 DE 31 NL 12 GB 1
369
18
DIN EN 27888 (C 8)
 Elemental Analysis
DE 365
365
19
DIN EN 27888
 Elemental Analysis
FR 166 IT 100 DE 78 NL 17 ES 2 GB 1
364
20
ISO 18593
 Food Safety Testing
IT 359 DE 2 NL 1 ES 1
363

Methodology

This ranking counts the number of distinct accredited laboratories holding each canonical test method across all six national accreditation bodies in the ScopeMatch database: DAkkS (Germany), UKAS (United Kingdom), COFRAC (France), RvA (Netherlands), ACCREDIA (Italy), and ENAC (Spain).

"Canonical test method" means the normalised capability after mapping national-language scope document entries (e.g. "DIN EN ISO 6892-1:2020-06") to a single identifier. A laboratory is counted once per method regardless of how many national variants it holds.

All figures reflect the ScopeMatch database as of April 2026.

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