The Future of Food Safety Starts Here with BioTags®
Simulate Contamination Without Disrupting Production
BioTags® are microscopic barcodes made from inactive bakerʼs yeast, US FDA and Health Canada compliant. Designed to move through production like real contaminants, they correlate predictably to interventions, ensuring insights translate into actionable risk management.
With unlimited unique identifiers, BioTags® act as proxies for contaminants, allowing food safety professionals to apply them to ingredients, surfaces, and equipment—stress-testing preventive controls before they become crises.
Optimize Reactive Responses
Reduce recall scopes, expedite root cause analysis from months to hours.
Drive Proactive Control
Identify vulnerabilities and fix them before they become crises.
Unlock Predictive Food Safety
Leverage BioTags® data with AI-driven modeling to prevent future risks.
Turning Food Safety from a Cost Center into an ROI-Driven Competitive Advantage
BioTags® Work in 4 Simple Steps
At Index Bio, we partner with you from start to finish—defining project objectives, guiding implementation, and ensuring your team gains the insights needed to enhance food safety with confidence. Our experts are here to support you every step of the way, so you get the most actionable, data-driven results possible.
Application
Introduce BioTags® at trace levels (ppm) onto ingredients, surfaces, or equipment.
Sampling
Collect swabs or retained product samples before and after interventions.
Testing
Analysis uses industry-standard PCR methods.
Reporting & Insights
Use Trailhead™ to unlock actionable data that bridges physical results with digital insights.
Read One of Our Case Studies
"The insights from our project with Index are poised to establish new best practices for the industry. This technology allows us to understand the risk and manage it in our operations more precisely."
Kent Juliot
Creating a Molecular-Level Digital Twin in Flour Milling
Request Case Study: Creating a Molecular-Level Digital Twin in Flour Milling
What Food Safety Professionals Say About Index Bio
"BioTags® represent a powerful tool for food safety professionals. With ongoing challenges in clean break validation for low-moisture RTE foods—especially under recent FDA guidance—they offer a promising solution to meet requirements and strengthen risk management."
Dr. Jeffrey Farber
Former Director of Microbial Food Safety
"BioTags® present the opportunity to reduce the scope of recalls and absolve unaffected products from allegations of contamination. This could open entirely new product categories to recall and contamination insurance."
Dr. David Acheson
President and CEO
"BioTags® seamlessly integrate and are quickly becoming the cornerstone of our new compliance verification program. Beyond meeting our own needs, it’s exciting to see how a single application of BioTags® unlocks downstream food safety benefits for our customers."
Rob Patterson
VP Innovation & Commercialization
BioTags® Enable Predictive Modeling That Goes Beyond Traditional Data
BioTags® empower food safety professionals to move beyond searching for a “needle-in-a-haystack.” They transform predictive modeling by generating high-resolution mapping that contains +100,00x more detectable data/gram, compared to pathogenic data.
