indexbiosystems.com – Let your product tell the story.

Your TraceForward® Safety Net.

Identify source-of-origin even when the chain-of-custody is broken.

Your Brand Doesn't Always Accompany Your Product.

Fight fraud, adulteration and substitution the smart way.

Know Where to Look.

Cross-contamination happens, and you may not be at fault. Know the difference.

Traceability Let your product tell the story, without the packaging.
Product Differentiation It's not always easy to see difference.
Segregation Batch-level identification for cross-contamination.

Traceability, Transparency, Trust

Introducing the DNA Unique Identifier - DUIDʸ

Our core technology includes a patent-pending, bio-engineered, inactive yeast product, which we call the DUID (DNA Unique Identifier). Yeast is ubiquitous throughout the environment and has been used to make bread, among other products, for thousands of years. It also functions as an amazing protective capsule and carrier for our identifiers.

By guaranteeing customizable biological identification that matches the operational and strategic requirements of customers, Index empowers a TraceForward™ approach to traceability. The platform can be easily integrated with existing systems and expands the scope of what is traceable – from seed to waste, including post-digestion – without the packaging.

One Solution, Complete Coverage

Simple Identification. Broad Application.

Food Safety

Reduce overall scope and time to resolve recalls by inoculating high-risk crops with any supply chain data (grower, region, lot/row, harvest date, etc.).

Certification

Indisputable evidence that the product you are purchasing is certified (ie. Country-of-origin, GMO, ethical sourcing, etc.).

Fraud & IP Protection

Get unprecedented insight into the details that enable true cost recovery. Not only definitively prove adulteration but have details related to batch level source of any breech.

Quality Control

Identify the exact batch from which a contaminant or allergen may have come from. Validate sanitation processes.

How Do We Stand Out?

Index has developed the first massively scalable, and customizable biological traceability solution.

An Entirely New Category

Traditional traceability technologies (Barcodes, RFID, etc.) tend to be non-biological solutions for biological products. They are inherently inadequate for many traceability challenges. Other biological traceability solutions either do not scale well or rely on expensive environmental profiling. These profiles may not be adequately unique and are subject to change over time.

Only Index’s DUID solution offers customizable alignment with a customer’s operational and strategic needs, at a massive scale.

Safe

Yeast is a commonly used food and feed input with a long history of safe use across industries. In production, DUIDʸ is validated to ensure nutritional and functional equivalency with a non-barcoded yeast. Once grown, DUIDʸ undergoes post-processing to ensure the final product is inactivated and incapable of any further growth.

Scalable

Our solution utilizes the replicative capacity of yeast to mass produce our identifiers. Grown using the identical fermentation process of other commercially sold yeast products, allows for efficient and economic production. There are no limits as to the number of unique ID sequences that can be produced.

Customizable

A DUIDʸ solution can be customized to match the strategic needs and operational realities of almost any food system use case. Our DUIDʸ can be added, mixed, sprayed or affixed to any product, integrates seamlessly with existing production pipelines, and can even be added at multiple nodes along a supply chain.

Annual Foodborne Illnesses

$ B

Annual Food Fraud

$ M

Avgerage Brand Recall

People to Feed by 2050

Contact Us

We'd Like to Hear from You.

Whether you’re interested in a partnership or you’d just like to learn more about what we can offer, send us a message.

Toronto Office

25 Sheppard Avenue West, Suite 300, Toronto, ON, M2N 6S6
info@indexbiosystems.com