Background: 

 

Products are arranged in the table by description and organized by Global company that owns the brand.  Five of the global conglomerates  -- namely Coca Cola, Mondelez/Kraft, Pepsi Cola, Nestle, and Unilever have been identified on our webpage titled Fetal Exploitive Products, as either having had an agreement with Senomyx before it was purchased by Firmenich or were named as a competitor in the synthetic flavoring business.  Kellogg's and Also General Mills brands which are produced in a joint venture agreement with a Nestles have now been included  see:   General Mills: Joint ventures.

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Obviously the brands listed in the tables above do not include all of their thousands of brands, we have culled the list down to the more familiar household names in North America.  Finally, some of the biggest players in the synthetic flavor and odorant industry are privately held companies and do not tell you who they sell to, companies such as Cargill , Givaudan  and  IFF (International Flavors and Fragrances Inc,). 

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IFF

Here is a video clip with Andreas Fibi, the CEO of IFF, presumably taking you on a tour of their facilities and explaining his jump from big pharma to the fun world of food and fragrance.  The CEO  opines that 1 out of every 5 products you buy at the local grocers contains their creations, and that estimate does not include the even larger players in the fragrance and flavor industry.  As with other companies in this business, their websites lavish the reader with virtuous sounding words and "word experiences" but  without a  concrete explanation of their business. The areas where the ingredients are concocted looks quite a bit like a hospital. 

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Here is an  article from 2012 discussing how  the Republican senator from Oklahoma introduced a bill to prohibit the use of fetuses in the food industry , not bad for an NPR ( National Public Radio - state funded)  article.

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What is the problem ?

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As we have said in earlier pages, namely the History of Abortion and Child Sacrifice, this grieves the heart of God.  We hope you will share our concern for the dark path humanity is going down.  Whatever your thought about who God is, life is sacred, God would most certainly have controversy with using clones of live kidney cells harvested from a baby just before it was killed, to create chemical combinations that alter your God given taste and olfactory receptors. If  you fancy that your god would not have a controversy then he is the one we call Satan.   There is no good path forward on this.

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Chances are that these will have an affect on our body :

Some consumer advocates question the regulation of these new flavor ingredients. As they appear in minute quantities, they are not identified on product labeling. Potentially more controversial is the question if the tongue and brain registers something as sweet that really isn’t, does the metabolism concur? ‘‘ To play with the taste perception may not be harmful’’ said Bedrich Mosinger, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate, Monell Chemical Senses Center. ‘‘However, we find taste receptors on endocrine cells in the body. We currently study in detail their physiological role, but we already know that they participate in regulation of release of several hormones. Therefore, agents that affect taste may also affect hormonal balance.’’  (excerpt from "The Tastemakers: Semonyx Targets Taste Receptors" Chemistry and Biology Innovations , Nov 2009, Wendy Wolfson )

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McCormick & Company and Mars Inc No Smoking Gun but a Strong and Firm Caveat Emptor 

Some very large global corporations such as Mars and McCormick have not been included because we could not find an existing patent directly assigned to them or their subsidiaries using HEK293 in the patent specifications.  However  we include possible reasons why we believe  they might be using this technology and issue a strong and firm "caveat emptor" caution.

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McCormick & Company

McCormick signed on to a trade association with the EFFA (European Flavor and Fragrance Association).  Other flavor and fragrance EFFA members include Firmenich, Givaudan, IFF, Kerry, Robertet, Sensient, Symrise and Takasago. Granted this might be guilt by association but if you really wanted to be intentional about not messing with people’s body parts to sell your spices and sauces and what not, you might want to be more careful about your associations.  

 

Furthermore, in their own words (see “5 Ways McCormick is Reinventing the Art and Science of Flavor “on McCormick website Jan 12, 2021):   “by leading natural science and technology programs, our broad portfolio of patented technology delivers flavors that not only taste good, but, are better for you.”  Also describing their craft as “proprietary modulation technology” wording and phrases that commonly point to the use of gene therapy which is based on HEK293.  Again, we stress no smoking gun here, as we could not find a patent directly assigned to McCormick using HEK293 but enough indicators to decide that in our household we would not use their products anymore. 

 

Mars Inc. 

When we first heard of taste receptors being engineered by companies some of the first products that came to mind were Excel and Eclipse gum and Whiskas cat food. These 3 products are owned by Mars Inc. a privately owned company.  
 

We had a neighbor ask us for help in recommending a cat food because his cat became aggressive and tweaked without her Whiskas.  Have you ever noticed that there will always, always, be someone going out to the store in crazy bad weather to purchase Whiskas or Friskies?  For our cats it was Temptations, and it was just like the commercial --they would do anything for the treat and would not relent if a night passed without receiving their high.   For myself I could go through a pack of Excel gum in an hour, easily.  I used to buy a pack of gum and it would last a day or even three, then I began buying bulk packages at the Superstore, and could not go anywhere without the gum or the mints.

 

I debated on whether or not to include it here because honestly as close as we thought we came to finding a smoking gun, we couldn’t.  But then maybe intuition should be trusted on this, because the gum, as we are sure is the case with the cat food, doesn’t taste that awesome, something else must be going on. These products have a strangely addictive signature, like that of the diet colas.  So we include Mars Inc. here as a way of encouraging any other reader, to simply trust your gut.  This will also save you some work in case you were going to research them.