We receive several inquiries a week asking for updates on food and beverage companies that are using Senomyx flavor enhancing technology. The requests are sufficiently regular that a post is warranted to describe the current state of affairs.
Many are aware of what happened in 2010 and 2011. A company based in California developed a flavor enhancing/attenuating additive design that worked directly on the taste receptors of the human tongue. The additives they developed could make things taste sweet without much sugar, cut the bitterness in some foods, enhance saltiness at very low levels of sodium – you get the picture. Interesting technology, however, their enhancers were tested in aborted fetal cell lines. The tests looked for the expression of specific proteins that would mimic taste receptor reaction to the enhancing additives.
Senomyx was quite open about their use of aborted fetal cell lines, openly disclosing this information on their website. Aggressive marketing to food and beverage manufacturers soon followed and some large, household-name companies demonstrated interest early on. The two most notable were PepsiCo and Kraft Foods. PepsiCo entered into a contract with Senomyx to apply the new technology to some of their beverage products. Please see this post written by our founder, Debi Vinnedge, in March of 2011 for details and the chronology.
The awareness that Debi raised in the Spring and Summer of 2011 resulted in Pepsi changing course and Kraft Foods severing all ties with Senomyx – truly remarkable achievements and a true grass-roots victory for the pro-life movement. Unfortunately, some companies were undeterred by the consumer response and continued to work with Senomyx and using their technology. Cadbury Adams and Nestle were among them, and a European company named Firmenich began distributing Senomyx flavor enhancing products to other food and beverage manufacturing companies in overseas markets.
Firmenich viewed Senomyx as a strategic fit for their business and began to work on acquiring Senomyx. The acquisition was completed in September of 2018 and Senomyx became a wholly-owned operating unit of Firmenich SA.
Firmenich is a privately-held corporation. They have no shareholders and they are not compelled to produce quarterly and annual reports like stock corporations. Any information that is made publicly available is released completely and exclusively at their discretion.
Firmenich acquired Senomyx with their eyes wide open. They saw what happened to PepsiCo, Kraft Foods and Campbell’s Soups. Manufacturer, customer and partner relationships with Senomyx went ‘dark’ during the acquisition process. References to Senomyx customers in marketing materials, websites and other communication media started to disappear – this was Senomyx and Firmenich implementing a risk management strategy.
And here we are today. Questions remain and people legitimately want to know if there are more companies using this enhancement technology. Somebody must be. There are over 130 patents owned by Senomyx and Firmenich for this stuff, and most of the patent filings provide detail on the testing process involving aborted fetal cell lines. Unfortunately, the ownership structure and recent history make it impossible to find reliable and authoritative information on current users.
Firmenich and their customers know that disclosure will be bad for business and everyone in that circle is quite protective of market share. No one in that value chain is going to release information on manufacturers or product lines and, because Firmenich is privately-held, this information cannot be gleaned from an annual report. I’ve read several of the annual reports, hoping to come across something useful, only realizing at the end that the time was wasted. What passes for their annual report is of very high production quality but the content is nothing more than high-brow marketing and fashionable corporate virtue-signaling.
Here’s the bottom line. There is no reasonable way to develop reliable and authoritative information on current users of this technology. I know that for a fact. I’ve looked and looked and looked. One would have to resort to industrial espionage.
If that is true for Children of God for Life, it is true for everyone else. Regrettably, there are outlets and websites that skip the research part and make sensational allegations, accompanied by long lists and images of familiar products. They do not cite their sources (if they have any) or provide any referential information at all. Some have gone so far as to say that the food and beverage products themselves contain traces of aborted fetal material and that PepsiCo tests bottled water in fetal cell lines. Both of these allegations are ridiculous and irresponsible. The former would ruin careers, set a match to shareholder equity and most likely result in criminal prosecution. The latter is one of those ‘I just don’t have the words…’ things. Testing water in fetal cell lines, or cell lines of any kind, is a waste of time and resources. Imagine directing highly paid lab professionals to do nothing more than dilute very expensive lab supplies and then pour it all down the sink. That can’t be good for one’s career.
Children of God for Life will not play that game. We will not make empty and unsupported allegations. Some of the information being peddled elsewhere may be correct, but only by accident. Ask them to prove it.
There’s a more recent post on this topic. Please click here to read it.
Great update.However note that the conclusion from years ago still remained that fetal cells were in use. There was no discernible evidence to verify otherwise. What made this apparent was the relative silence as Trump signed of on the usage of the same in the Covid vaccines & monoclonal antibody cocktails, his authorization of the purchase of 70 new embryonic cell lines created from destroyed embryos from Israel . There was so much evasion, yet decisive condemnation while Obama was in office. I disagree with both. The principled position was out the door. This is disappointing as an African in America because it reminds me of the complicity of the Church in enslavement & segregation over centuries along racial lines. I appreciate the work but when it turns out with the appearance of partiality along racial or political lines it is sad.
Thank you for the article and for putting everything on the table. Anyway, if they keep everything so secret, there has to be sth wrong. Second, many sensational or conspiracy news then turns out to be real.
Using fetal cell lines in vaccines or anything else is reprehensible! Thank you for warning us about these souless people and their amoral actions. Boycotts should be in order for prolife people!
1 Cor 10
20 No, I mean that what they sacrifice, [they sacrifice] to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.
22 Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than he?
23“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds up.
Abortion is a human sacrifice to Satan. Satanic tainted vaccines, foods and beverages are part of the New World Order freemason government in the shadows plan. Firmenich, Nestlé and Cadbury are controlled by them, as well as most listed stocks. Nestlé products have been proven to be magnetized (i.e. graphene oxide): check videos in Telegram channel from LaQuintaColumna Alimentos Magnetizados.
Very strange inexplicable fibers have been detected in bottled water.
We can’t discard abortion tainted bottled water either: just as you need one drop of holy water to make holy the content of a whole bottle, to dedicate a bottle to Satan they only need one molecule (also, water has salt, the enhancer would make it saltier and tastier, even in trace amounts).
Check “COVID vaccine, a grave sin?” in “COVID cure or perpetual vaccination?: 30 cheap effective treatments of COVID-19 & variants, like ivermectin, or never-ending compulsory injection, with unsafe, genotoxic, infertilizing, injuring, crippling, handicapping, lethal, inefficient, ineffective, abortion-tainted, abortive, unethical, population control, experimental genetic-hacks, deceivingly called vaccines instead of haccines? Scientific proof of the genocidal PLANdemic with 2000 peer reviewed references.” at academia edu
Is this article not true then?
https://ppjg.me/2018/11/16/list-of-companies-using-fetal-cells-from-aborted-babies-to-flavour-products/
Rachel, that article contains many inaccuracies. The most significant inaccuracy is its claim that aborted fetal cells are actually contained in the food and beverage products. That is absolutely false, and, in my opinion, it is an irresponsible thing to say or write. Debi Vinnedge was also quoted out of context. You can read the real thing, here. To be clear, the article you linked to has no credibility.
Uwc 4life seemed to say just what you said not to do made sweeping statements and even mentioned the water thing ..I don’t know if you subscribe to the Freemason new world idea ,
I will just now continue to NOT BUY ANY product that says bioengineered, GMO, Artificial flavoring ( anything), Natural flavoring Flavoring, all the 3 letter B?? Additives, fragrance, and until I learned of this by coming online this year I realized I needed to pray for more than I ever imagined. Shopping for something with none of these is alot harder then u can imagine in US but not participating in the illusion anymore. Break on thru to the other side….
Today dec21 we must pray
Hi Lincoln,
I’m curious what you meant in your above comment by “all the 3 letter B”? I assumed Bioengineered was one but wasn’t sure what else this was referring to since natural and Artificial flavorings don’t contain a “B”. Thanks!
I found this research I wrote down Nov,2021. SENOMYX, under name on food products in ingredients list- “NATURAL” FLAVOR. My emphasis on the word natural.
Boycott Pepsi products-Kraft,Nestlé,Cadbury,Mountain Dew,Aquafina Water,Lipton Tea,Gatorade,Maggi,Quaker,Campbell’s,coka cola,Carnation,Drumstick,Lean cuisine,Milo,Nescafe,Ovaltine,7up,Maxwell house,Quick.
Also Neocutis beauty products- Bio-Gel,Bio-Serum,Bio-cream.
Joanne, where did you come across that information? Kraft Foods was considering using Senomyx flavor enhancers but decided against it and so did Campbell Soups. Campbell Soups publicly addressed their decision to not proceed with Senomyx over ten years ago, on the heels of the Pepsi boycott.
Unless we have reliable information clearly showing that a company is using these kinds of flavor enhancers, we should not give in to speculation. There are organizations that make allegations but have no authoritative sources behind these allegations.
Like Jose Trasancos, I would like verification on Kraft and Campbell Soups use or not using Senomyx flavor enhancers in their products. Is there another source to follow up on this?
Since current ingredient labeling laws don’t require specifically listing any ingredients below a certain level of content/concentration, the only resource left is contacting the companies directly and asking them if they use Senomyx enhancers or anything similar. I wish it were different, but that’s the current story. Firmenich, S.A. will no longer disclose their partner and client lists for the Senomyx product line.
Agree… it’s DIFFICULT to find any lable that doesn’t have “natural flavorings” on it. Look at a Hershey chocolate bar label and you’ll see line after line of chemicals that you’ve never seen and … natural flavorings. Why on Earth would any candy company need to fool someones taste buds with chocolate? Ritter Sport made in Europe has only a few ingredients… containing none of the crap in Hersheys.
Russ, just to be clear, if a label displays ‘other natural and (or) artificial flavorings’, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the product contains ethically compromised flavor enhancers. Citric acid, for example, is a natural flavoring that might be so listed, because the amounts used are below a threshold.
With all the poison food processing plants being destroyed, how can this be allowed to continue?
All the more reason to stop buying preservative filled box, can, and paper packaged foods, snacks and candies.. So far I don’t believe farmers are using aborted fetal cells to test their pasture raised meats and organic fruits and vegetables.. Stop buying in the middle of the store and stick to the perimeter…as much as possible.
Understanding that we simply do not know what we might be ingesting, we should always bless our food before eating, snacking or drinking. “Bless us, O Lord, and these Thy gifts, which we are about to receive…”