The company Micro Tracers Services Europe GmbH (MTSE GmbH for short) was founded on 26 January 2000 as a joint venture in Nuremberg by the companies Microtracers. Inc. San Francisco/USA, the company J.H. Akerboom Holding b.v., Schiedam /NL and Dr Sabine Artelt, the managing partner.

Micro-Tracers Inc., based in California/USA (www.microtracers.com) together with its subsidiary Anresco Inc., has been providing analytical services to a large part of the American animal feed industry for many years.

Jadis-Additiva b.v. (www.jadis-additiva.com) is the exclusive distributor for microtracer particles in Europe and has many years of experience in the field of feed additives.

Dr. Sabine Artelt is an analytical chemist and has been familiar with mixing processes and their analysis for 25 years. Before founding MTSE GmbH, she worked for many years for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Aerosol Research (today: ITEM) in Hanover, among others. Today, MTSE GmbH is active in over 20 countries in Europe. Since 2013, the company has been based in Langerwehe in the heart of Europe in the border triangle of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

The Microtracer analysis method with the patented Microtracer particles was developed in the 1970s by Dr Sylvan Eisenberg in the USA and became the standard there in the following years.

MTSE GmbH also introduced this innovative method in Europe in 2000. In 2004, the further developed method was subjected to an extensive comparative study by the TNO Institute in the Netherlands. Based on this study, the entire analysis procedure was integrated into the GMP+ quality assurance system in 2006: Support document p. 9.14 "Examples of methods for measuring carry-over and homogeneity".

MTSE GmbH works with licence laboratories worldwide in order to be close to the customer. The first licence laboratory was the laboratory of the former Premervo b.v. in Utrecht, now NutriControl in Veghel, in November 2006. 8 licence laboratories currently exist in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain and the USA, and further licence laboratories are currently being set up. MTSE GmbH regularly carries out suitability tests for quality control.

In recent years, the determination of mixing accuracy and carryover with microtracers has been extended from powdered, pelletised and extruded mixtures to liquid samples such as gel mixtures, suspensions, pork mash, raw meat mixtures and lickstones.

In 2010, the quantitative analyser of Microtracer Analytics, the so-called "rotation detector", was further developed together with the company mis GmbH in Aachen in close cooperation with universities in a new design and according to today's standards.

The current customer base of MTSE GmbH is made up of premix companies, animal feed producers, pet food manufacturers, producers of mixers and mixing systems and manufacturers of other powder mixtures such as spice mixtures. The analysis method is increasingly being used in the food industry, e.g. to analyse the homogeneity of mixtures in the bakery industry and of spice mixtures.