{"id":21233,"date":"2019-04-14T06:34:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T06:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alj.com\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=21233"},"modified":"2019-07-29T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:33:14","slug":"mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/news\/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT &#8216;spinout&#8217; seeks to transform food safety testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An affordable, easy-to-use handheld sensor, soon to enter the market, can indicate the presence of bacterial contaminants in food in seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xibus.systems\/\">Xibus Systems,<\/a> formed in 2018, is leading the initiative, working to bring a fast, easy, and affordable food safety sensing technology to food industry users and everyday consumers.\u00a0The development of the technology, based on MIT research, was supported by two commercialization grants through the <a href=\"https:\/\/jwafs.mit.edu\/\">MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab\u2019s<\/a> J-WAFS Solutions program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The technology is based on specialized droplets \u2014 called Janus emulsions \u2014 that can be used to detect bacterial contamination in food.\u00a0The use of Janus droplets to detect bacteria was developed by a research team led by Tim Swager, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry, and Alexander Klibanov, the Novartis Professor of Biological Engineering and Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Swager and researchers in his lab originally developed the method for making Janus emulsions in 2015. Their idea was to create a synthetic particle that has the same dynamic qualities as the surface of living cells.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Swager says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe were thrilled by the design. It is a completely new sensing method that could really transform the food safety sensing market.\u00a0It showed faster results than anything currently available on the market, and could still be produced at very low cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Janus emulsions respond exceptionally quickly to contaminants and provide quantifiable results that are visible to the naked eye or can be read via a smartphone sensor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hartshorn says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe technology is rooted in very interesting science. What we are doing is marrying this scientific discovery to an engineered product that meets a genuine need and that consumers will actually adopt.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/MITspinout\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/MITspinout<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21232,"template":"","tags":[],"newscategory":[150],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Xibus Systems: Transforming Food Safety Testing | Abdul Latif Jameel\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Xibus Systems is working to bring a fast, easy, and affordable food safety sensing technology to food industry users and everyday consumers.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/news\/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Xibus Systems: Transforming Food Safety Testing | Abdul Latif Jameel\u00ae\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Xibus Systems is working to bring a fast, easy, and affordable food safety sensing technology to food industry users and everyday consumers.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/news\/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Abdul Latif Jameel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Abdul.Latif.Jameel.Official\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-07-29T12:33:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/media.alj.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/56681812_2049056481816488_1302108808541110272_n.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"756\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/news\/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testing\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/news\/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testing\/\",\"name\":\"Xibus Systems: Transforming Food Safety Testing | Abdul Latif Jameel\u00ae\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-04-14T06:34:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-29T12:33:14+00:00\",\"description\":\"Xibus Systems is working to bring a fast, easy, and affordable food safety sensing technology to food industry users and everyday consumers.\u00a0\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/news\/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testing\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/news\/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testing\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/news\/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testing\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"MIT &#8216;spinout&#8217; 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