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Seeking natural colors for foods and beverages

• Posted by PepsiCo
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• Project Size : 50,000 - 250,000 €

PepsiCo is evaluating different natural color ingredients and technologies to replace Yellow #5, Yellow #6, Red #40, and Blue #1 for multiple food and beverage brands in order to address consumer demand. Specific challenges are in the Red #40 (food) and Blue #1 (food & beverage) replacers.

Seeking Rapid Substance Detection in Inspection and Supply Chain

• Posted by The Procter & Gamble Company
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• Project Size : 250,000 - 1,000,000 €

Procter & Gamble is a global leader in innovation, products and services for consumer goods in categories like Beauty (Hair and Skin Care), Fabric & Home Care, Baby Care, Oral Care, Health Care, Family Care, and Feminine Care. We focus on designing and manufacturing superior products, packages and experiences that are safe to consumers, the environment and supply chain partners. P&G undertakes significant efforts to analyze compositions of raw materials and finished products and packages from development to manufacturing through the supply chain. NEED DESCRIPTION For most substances we lack rapid, easy-to-use yet precise detection devices/ methods for inspections at P&G operations (e.g. material income, manufacturing control, cleaning of equipment) and at our supply chain partners that can be used by workers and do not require laboratory environment/ standards

Seeking existing market solutions targeted towards crawling insects

• Posted by The Procter & Gamble Company
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• Project Size : Strategic project backed by large scale funding €

The issue of crawling insects in homes has been an ongoing issue. The popular types of crawling insects causing problems have been ants and cockroaches. The search will focus on existing market solutions targeted towards crawling insects such as ants and cockroaches (other types of crawling insects are in scope i.e., bed bugs).

Partnering Opportunity: Effervescent Powders for Inhalation

• Posted by University of Alberta, Technology Transfer Services
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• Innovative Products and Technologies

University of Alberta and Alberta Health Services researchers have jointly developed a new type of dry-powder inhalable carrier particle with an active release mechanism to disperse therapeutics more effectively. Most advanced product candidate based on this delivery system is an inhalable effervescent doxorubicin nanoparticle formulation; it demonstrated significantly improved survival time in a small cell lung cancer mouse model.

Biometric identification system based on eye blinking

• Posted by Universidad de Alicante
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• Innovative Products and Technologies

The Optics and Vision Sciences research group at the University of Alicante has developed a method for biometric authentication by recognizing the blinking of a subject. The method consists of studying and characterizing the changes in the intensity of diffused light during the blinking process. Those changes are used to classify the blinks using different algorithms. A subject can then be identified according to the parameters recorded. This method allows the authentication of subjects by means of a non-contact procedure, and even unconsciously. Commercial or built-in on mobile devices video cameras or webcams can be used for its application provided that the video is recorded at rates higher than 150 frames per second (fps). We are looking for companies interested in the commercial exploitation of this technology as well as in adapting it for the development of related projects.

Soy-Based Cationic Surfactant with CO2 Sequestration

• Posted by Barry McGraw from Airable Research Lab, business line of Ohio Soybean Council
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• Innovative Products and Technologies

Airable Research Lab has synthesized a bio-based cationic surfactant that can replace more toxic products. The Airable product provides a secondary environmental benefit: a unique technology that sequesters greenhouse gases by consuming CO2 in synthesis.