EXHIBIT 99.1

                Visualant Completes Enhanced Prototype

    SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2007--Visualant, Inc.
(OTCBB:VSUL), a technology company developing spectral data-based
security and quality control solutions, today announced that its
product team has completed the development of an enhanced prototype
utilizing the core Visualant patent-pending technology.

    Code named "Cyclops(TM)," the enhanced prototype applies the
Company's spectral data-based security and quality control solution. A
number of potential marketplace applications are now being tested in
the Company's laboratory.

    "We are very excited about the progress our scientific team has
been making to improve our initial prototype and are pleased with the
performance of 'Cyclops(TM)' in our laboratory setting," said Dr. Tom
Furness, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Company. Dr. Furness is also
Director Emeritus of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory and a
Professor at the University of Washington. His role at Visualant is
independent from his University responsibilities.

    Dr. Furness, along with Dr. Brian Schowengerdt, leads the
scientific staff working for Visualant. Dr. Schowengerdt added, "Our
enhanced prototype is more robust than our initial prototype and will
allow us to demonstrate the capabilities of our spectral solution
outside of the lab."

    About Visualant, Inc.

    Visualant, Inc., develops low-cost, high-speed, light-based
security and quality control solutions available for use in homeland
security, anti-counterfeiting, forgery/fraud prevention, brand
protection and process control applications. Our patent-pending
technology uses controlled illumination with specific bands of light,
measures and records what is seen, and manages data gathered in an
innovative manner enabling our devices to establish a unique spectral
signature for both individual and classes of items. Those spectral
signatures, when matched against existing databases, allow precise
identification and authentication of any item or substance.

    Our common stock is listed on the OTC Bulletin Board under the
symbol "VSUL."

    The statements made by Visualant, Inc. in this press release may
be forward-looking in nature and are made pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Such forward-looking statements describe the Company's future plans,
projections, strategies and expectations, and may be identified by
words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans,"
"believes," "seeks," "estimates" or words of similar meaning. These
forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and involve a
number of risks, uncertainties, situations and other factors that may
cause our, or our industry's, actual results, level of activity,
performance or achievements to be materially different from any future
results, level of activity, performance or achievements expressed or
implied by these statements. These factors include changes in interest
rates, market competition, changes in the local and national
economies, and various other factors detailed from time to time in
Visualant, Inc. SEC reports and filings, including our Annual Report
on Form 10-KSB and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-QSB and
Current Report on Form 8-K. The Company undertakes no obligation to
update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new
information, events or circumstances after the date hereof to reflect
the occurrence of unanticipated events.


    CONTACT: Visualant, Inc.
             Lynn Felsinger, 206-903-1351
             Fax: 206-903-1352
             lynn@visualant.net