Food In-Depth provides a testing platform that utilizes a proprietary process to detect antibiotics and other substances in meat, ensuring transparency and accountability for food label claims. By offering rapid, affordable, and highly sensitive testing solutions, the platform addresses the lack of reliable verification in the meat supply chain, enabling consumers to make informed choices about their food.
Funding
$12M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Current methods for detecting antibiotics and other substances in meat are often expensive, time-consuming, or lack sufficient sensitivity. This creates a lack of transparency and accountability in the meat supply chain, making it difficult for consumers to verify label claims and make informed purchasing decisions.
Solution
Food In-Depth provides a testing platform designed to detect antibiotics and other substances in meat using a comprehensive and rapid proprietary process. The platform offers highly sensitive testing solutions that enable food companies to provide transparency regarding their brand label claims. By offering near real-time results at production line speeds, Food In-Depth allows for continuous on-site testing to verify food safety. The platform's data-backed, scientific approach aims to give consumers access to information needed to make informed choices about the food they purchase. Results are accessible through a dashboard, and optionally via a QR code on the product.
Target Audience
The primary customers are forward-looking food companies seeking to manage supply chain risks, demonstrate a commitment to safe food, and provide transparency for consumers.
Features
- Tests for over 95% of the most common drugs and antibiotics administered in feed and water.
- Offers 5-10x more sensitivity than alternative testing methods.
- Provides results in near real-time, suitable for production line speeds.
- Delivers comprehensive and rigorous testing solutions.
- Reporting dashboard accessible in near real-time.
- Optional on-product QR code for consumer access to test results.
- Currently testing beef, pork, and poultry, with plans for expansion to other foods.
- Tests for Beta Agonists, Fluoroquinolones, Ionophores, Macrolides, Penicillins, Sulfonamides, and Tetracyclines.