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Environmental SARS-CoV-2 testing
Environmental SARS-CoV-2 testing for enterprise customers

Reimagining

food safety

We leverage biology to develop tools that enhance the traceability and safety of the food system. 

Product benefits

Bring the power of Aanika into your supply chain

Protect product integrity
Ensure product integrity

Identify product origin, embed certifications, and uncover adulteration.

Reduce waste
Increase efficiency

Improve supply chain transparency, quality, accountability - and reduce waste.

Price products accurately
Price more accurately

Price goods accurately according to their geographic (or other) origins by tagging them at source.

Limit recalls
Limit recalls

Limit legal, financial and brand exposure by precisely identifying specific microbially-encoded batches.

Protect your brand equity
Protect your brand

Microbes with custom-encoded DNA cannot be faked, providing an extra layer of protection against counterfeiting.

Improve Sustainability
Champion sustainability

A more efficient, accountable supply chain is kinder to the planet and is what customers demand.

Aanika’s custom tracer microbes are...

Immutable

Safe

Immutable   Invisible   Odorless   Heat & UV Resistant   

Stable   Invisible   Odorless   Heat & UV resistant   Secure   

Stable   Invisible   Odorless   Heat & UV resistant   Secure   

Stable   Invisible   Odorless   Heat & UV resistant   Secure   

Safe

Safe   Edible   Tasteless   Customizable   Indestructible   

Safe   Edible   Tasteless   Customizable   Indestructible   

Safe   Edible   Tasteless   Customizable   Indestructible   

Aanika Technology
Our science

Bridging the gap between biology and the digital world

All living creatures contain billions of bits of information within their biomolecules. At Aanika, we leverage nature to generate endless combinations of biological tags.

Our tags are safe and edible but can withstand the harshest of conditions, providing customers with information when and where they need it most.

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“We leverage the power of biotechnology to build a more transparent future.”

Dr. Ellen Jorgensen
CSO @ Aanika
Industrial Applications

Biology for risk mitigation

Aanika has developed a microbial tag that can be applied at the beginning of a supply chain, and read out at various points down stream, essentially book-ending a supply chain. 
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In addition, we are developing tools that can address secondary issues such as contamination and product quality, creating a multi-faceted, low cost risk mitigation solution . 

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Berkeley Lights and Aanika BioSciences Reach Strategic Partnership Milestone By Identifying A Commercially Viable Antimicrobial Peptide
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Biotech Start-Up Aanika Biosciences Lands Initial $12M Funding for Cutting-Edge Food Tracing Technology
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Biological Tags Help Track Down the Cause of E. Coli Outbreaks
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Tracing Food with Genetically Engineered Spores
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Aanika partners with Protera Bio
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