http://www.senomyx.com/our-expertise/our-partnerships/
https://www.fooddive.com/news/pepsico-introduces-first-use-of-sweetmyx-s617-from-senomyx/405041/
PEPSICO uses a "flavor enhancer" based on a line of aborted fetal cells...
Products using "senomyx" - interesting name seno - senile?
Pepsi Beverages: All Pepsi soft drinks Sierra Mist soft drinks Mountain Dew soft drinks Mug root beer and other soft drinks No Fear beverages Ocean Spray beverages Seattles Best Coffee Tazo beverages AMP Energy beverages Aquafina water Aquafina flavored beverages DoubleShot energy beverages Frappuccino beverages Lipton tea and other beverages Propel beverages SoBe beverages Gatorade beverages Fiesta Miranda beverages Tropicana juices and beverages Other Senomyx Partner Products Nestles Products: All coffee creamers Maggi Brand instant soups, bouillon cubes, ketchups, sauces, seasoning, instant noodles Kraft Cadbury Adams LLC Products: Gum Black Jack chewing gum Bubbaloo bubble gum Bubblicious bubble gum Chiclets Clorets Dentyne Freshen Up Gum Sour Cherry Gum (Limited) Sour Apple Gum (Limited) Stride Trident Cadbury Adams LLC Candies Sour Cherry Blasters Fruit Mania Bassetts Liquorice All sorts Maynards Wine Gum Swedish Fish Swedish Berries Juicy Squirts Original Gummies Fuzzy Peach Sour Chillers Sour Patch Kids Mini Fruit Gums Other Cadbury Adams LLC Products: Certs breath mints Halls Cough Drops
"based on" is a little strong here. According to the article, SENOMYX has bioengineered a kidney cell to work as a taste receptor. They were looking for a chemical that would make sugar taste sweeter, so they could use less of it. Instead of using human testers, they used the bioengineered taste receptor to test thousands of chemicals as sweetness enhancers. Once they found such a chemical, presumably they then tested it on human subjects (assuming they knew already that it was safe to do so).
The kidney cell line has been around for decades. They just keep reproducing it. The moral issue is that the original cell came from a human fetus aborted decades ago.
Turning people into cannibals.
Are they still doing this I thought they stopped.We picketed them years ago.They called the cops on us of course.The cops were cool.
I never knew that!