Life-Saving Packaging

"Toxin Guard is a biochemical sensor that can be printed on packaging as easy as ink, through the standard printing process," said William Bodenhamer, president of Toxin Alert. "There are 144 sensors in one sq. ft. of packaging material for 1-2 cents per square foot.

"We knew it had to work in the real world and be affordable," Bodenhamer said. "We worked with a commercial printer in Toronto and printed the Toxin Guard on a 60-year-old Mark Andy 2100 flexographic printer. That's the design of this system—it had to be able to be run in the real printing world."