The world's largest food company is making a foray into the medical arena.
Nestle's purchasing the rights to a testing kit for infants with milk allergies.
Swiss Nestle are set to pay the current owners, France's DBV Technologies,
10 million euros up front, with a further 90 million dependent on successful development of the skin patch test.
As well as developing and marketing the experimental kit for cow's milk protein allergy.
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Nestle want to raise awareness of the condition.
In a bid to boost sales of products for babies with food intolerance.
And hopes it will eventually generate 10 billion dollars worth of business.
DVB's shares rose 5 percent on the news.
