Claim: Various multinational food and drink companies use artificial flavourings made by Senomyx which are made from aborted foetal cells.
Fact-check: There aren't human foetal cells in lots of popular snacks and drinks - Full Fact
Verdict: all but one company confirmed they didn't use the flavouring product made by the company in question. the cells are not flavourings themselves but used in flavouring development. they are clones of cells taken from the kidney of aborted foetus in 1973.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2019-06-28T00:00:00