Exhibit 99.1

PRESS RELEASE	Contact
For Release	Lynn Felsinger Visualant, Inc. 206.903.1351 phone 206.903.1352 fax lynn@visualant.net

Visualant to Create Visualant Laboratory

Consolidation of Intellectual Property and Scientific Leadership with
Acquisition of RATLab Assets

Seattle, WA. October 6, 2010/Business Wire.  Visualant, Inc. (OTCBB: VSUL) (the “Company) an emerging leader in authentication systems technology, announced today that is has signed a letter of intent to acquire all Visualant related assets of the RATLab LLC.

The RATLab LLC is a Seattle based research and development laboratory created by Dr. Tom Furness, founder and Director of the HITLab International, with labs at Seattle, University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and the University of Tasmania in Australia. Guided by Dr. Tom Furness and Dr. Brian Schowengerdt, a research scientist in the field of optics and vision science, the RATLab LLC developed the Spectral Pattern Matching (“SPM”) technology under contract for Visualant.

With this acquisition, Visualant will consolidate all intellectual property relating to the SPM technology.  In addition to its current authentication and security applications of SPM, Visualant will now own all other applications including the important fields of medicine, agriculture, and the environment and begin the creation of the Visualant Laboratory.

Upon the closing of this asset acquisition transaction, Dr. Tom Furness and Dr. Brian Schowengerdt will continue to provide technology leadership to Visualant under terms that are still subject to negotiation.

Dr. Furness stated, “We are very pleased to begin the process of moving all the Visualant intellectual property and scientific leadership under one roof.  Visualant’s recent acquisition of TransTech Systems brings world wide distribution channels and industry knowledge to the equation.  Coupled with the new innovations that will come out of Visualant Laboratory, we believe the applications of the SPM technology can grow rapidly, and look forward to our active involvement in that effort.”

Ron Erickson, Visualant CEO said, “We are thrilled to be able to bring all of these intellectual property and human assets together.  Dr. Furness, Dr. Schowengerdt, and the wonderful research team at the RATLab have done brilliant work.  With this acquisition, Visualant will be creating its own laboratory to continue the research and development of SPM technology.”

About Visualant, Inc.

Visualant, Inc. develops low-cost, high speed, light-based security and quality control solutions for use in homeland security, anti-counterfeiting, forgery/fraud prevention, brand protection and process control applications.  Its patent-pending technology uses controlled illumination with specific bands of light, to establish a unique spectral signature for both individual and classes of items.  When matched against existing databases, these spectral signatures allow precise identification and authentication of any item or substance.  This breakthrough optical sensing and data capture technology is called Spectral Pattern Matching (SPM).  SPM technology can be miniaturized and is easily integrated into a variety of hand-held or fixed mount configurations, and can be combined in the same package as a bar-code or biometric scanner.  

Through its wholly owned subsidiary, TransTech Systems, Inc., the Company provides security and authentication solutions to security and law enforcement markets throughout the United States.

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