A Jan. 5 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows a man talking in front of a background that includes pictures of popular snack foods and soft drinks.
“Everything we eat from coca cola to Nestle Tea has aborted babies in it,” the man in the video says. “That’s right. All of the companies have a common ingredient, which is Senomyx. If you look it up, Senomyx is a flavor enhancer made from aborted fetal cells.”
The video was liked more than 900 times in 26 days.
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The Food and Drug Administration says fetal tissue is not allowed in any form in food. A flavoring company uses a cell line derived from fetal kidney cells to test and identify artificial flavors for further development, but those cells do not end up in the food consumers eat.
An FDA official said fetal tissue would never be allowed in food.
“There are no conditions under which the FDA would consider human fetal tissue to be safe or legal for human or animal consumption,” the official said. “The FDA is not aware of any company ever putting fetal cells into food products and has therefore not taken any enforcement action against any company for putting fetal cells into food products.”
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