The Food Sentinel System

Key Product — The Food Sentinel System®
       

Duplex-Designed Barcode TTI

•    Accurate and precise.  As thermal conditions rise to an industry or regulatory level of
concern, computer-driven barcode scanners capture and archive the change whereby
product tampering by removing an activated label or package already logged in the scanner data base, would result in criminal liability.

•    Archival “memory” storage of the thermal change.

•    Automated “readability” of labels and packages using conventional barcode scanners.

•    Current TTIs are “additional” labels that must be applied somewhere away from
the existing barcode labels. SIRA’s labels are not “additional” labels, just an addition to the food label giving it a transinformative capability.

The FSS barcode is actually two barcodes (a SIRA code & product code) that couple together.  When the ink is activated, the SIRA barcode becomes unreadable. After exposure to the designated temperature, the ink becomes visible across both barcodes, blocking the product barcode and completing the SIRA Food Safety barcode.

“Bacteria, by any reasonable criterion, were in the beginning, are now, and ever shall be, the most successful organisms on earth.” Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, 1996

“Some bacteria can double their numbers every 20 minutes at temperatures above 40ºF. In two hours, these bacteria can become so great in number that they may cause an illness or form toxins that cause illness.” USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) 

A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study titled, “Food Related Illness and Death in the United States” (1999) revealed 76 million outbreaks of food-borne illness, 5,000 deaths and 325,000 hospitalizations occurred that year. The economic cost of those illnesses was estimated as 5-17 billion dollars in direct medical expenses, lost wages and productivity.