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Food safety and quality control spans detection and in-line monitoring, contamination control and decontamination, and compliance, claims, and reformulation. On Halo, R&D teams connect with 80 commercially viable technologies, 60 active innovators, and 39 organizations advancing how food safety is verified and assured — from miniature spectrometers and smart packaging sensors to cold-plasma decontamination and claims substantiation. Explore the solutions, startups, suppliers, and researchers below, or post a partnering request to source exactly what you need.

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Requests in food safety & quality control

Partnering requests are posted by industry R&D teams actively seeking food safety & quality control solutions, tools, or collaborators. Browse open and past requests to see where real demand exists.
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Hear from the food safety and quality control innovators and R&D teams already collaborating through Halo.

Using Halo we’ve been able to find new research and experts that none of our other tools could find. That has been a major benefit, unearthing what is up and coming and beneath the surface. The other big value-driver has been efficiency and how streamlined the process is through Halo.
Maxine Roman

Maxine Roman, Kraft Heinz

Lead, R&D Innovation Collaboration & Partnerships

Halo made it easy to source proposals to our opportunity, share feedback with colleagues and connect directly with the researchers to learn more. The fact that we identified more than 30 proposals for further screening speaks to their quality and relevance.
Sri Narayan-Sarathy

Sri Narayan-Sarathy, PepsiCo

Senior Principal Scientist

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