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DSM Invest In Food Freshness Firm

September 3, 2007 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 85, Issue 36

A European syndicate led by DSM Venturing and Swiss-based Inventages Venture Capital has pumped $5.6 million into Food Quality Sensor International, which develops technologies to detect the freshness of perishable foods. FQSI's SensorQ stick-on label is applied to the inside of meat and poultry packages to detect the gaseous by-products of food-borne bacteria. FQSI expects to launch the product later this year. Ciba Specialty Chemicals has developed a stick-on food-freshness sensor that is applied to the outside of a food package.

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