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                                                              EXHIBIT 10.1(u)(1)

                             AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE
                                 UNIVERSAL FOODS
                            SUPPLEMENTAL BENEFIT PLAN

            WHEREAS, Universal Foods Corporation d/b/a Sensient Technologies
(the "Company") sponsors the Universal Foods Supplemental Benefit Plan (the
"Plan") for employees of the Company who have satisfied the eligibility
requirements of the Plan; and

            WHEREAS, the Company's fiscal year has changed to the calendar year;
and

            WHEREAS, the Company has changed its name to Sensient Technologies
Corporation, subject to shareholder approval at the annual meeting of
shareholders scheduled to be held in April 2001; and

            WHEREAS, the Company wishes to amend the Plan to reflect such
changes and other matters relating thereto.

            NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is hereby amended as follows effective as
of the dates noted below:

            1. Effective as of November 6, 2000, the Plan shall be known as the:
"Sensient Technologies Supplemental Benefit Plan".

            2. Effective as of November 6, 2000, Section 1. is amended in its
entirety to read as follows:

            "Section 1. Purpose

                  The purpose of the Sensient Technologies Supplemental Benefit
            Plan ("Plan") is to reimburse certain employees for various
            reductions in qualified plan benefits in the Sensient Technologies
            Retirement Employee Stock Ownership Plan, the Sensient Technologies
            Transition Retirement Plan, the Sensient Technologies Corporation
            Savings Plan, which reductions are caused by (i) restrictions in
            Section 401(a)(17), 410, or 415 of the Internal Revenue Code, (ii)
            the maximum limitation on employer and employee contributions under
            Sections 401(k), 401(m), and 402(g), of the Internal Revenue Code
            and (iii) the deferral of a portion of their cash compensation
            pursuant to nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements."

            3. Effective as of November 6, 2000, paragraph (c) of Section 2. is
amended in its entirety to read as follows:

                        "(c) 'Company' means Universal Foods Corporation d/b/a
                  Sensient Technologies Corporation and, effective upon approval
                  of the shareholders, to be known as Sensient Technologies
                  Corporation."
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            4. Effective as of November 6, 2000, the Plan is amended throughout
by replacing each additional reference to "Universal Foods Corporation" with
"Sensient Technologies Corporation".

            5. Effective as of November 6, 2000, the Plan is amended throughout
by replacing each reference to "UFC Stock" with "STC Stock".

            6. Effective as of November 6, 2000, the Plan is amended throughout
by deleting each reference to the "Universal Foods Corporation Retirement
Plan-General Participating Group".

            7. Effective November 6, 2000, paragraph (1) of Section 2. is
deleted, and the following paragraphs of Section 2 are re-lettered accordingly.

            8. Effective as of October 1, 2000, Section 4. is amended in its
entirety to read as follows:

            "Section 4. Savings Plan Matching Supplement.

                        An Executive's Plan Account shall be allocated an amount
                  (i) for the period prior to October 1, 2000; as of September
                  30, 1989 and each September 30 thereafter; and (ii) for the
                  period on and after October 1, 2000; as of December 31, 2000
                  and each December 31 thereafter, equal to the difference
                  between (A) and (B), where:

                        (A) is the amount of matching Employer contributions
                        that would have been allocated to the account of the
                        Executive for each plan year under the Savings Plan,
                        assuming:
                        (1)   the Executive had made the maximum pre-tax
                              deposits for the plan year,
                        (2)   the 415 Limit and $200,000 Limit were
                              inapplicable, and
                        (3)   the limitations on employer and employee
                              contributions under Code Sections 401(k), 401(m),
                              and 402(g) were inapplicable, and
                        (B) is the actual matching Employer contribution
                        allocable to the Executive's Savings Plan account for
                        the plan year."

            9. Effective as of October 1, 2000, Section 5. is amended in its
entirety to read as follows:

            "Section 5. ESOP Supplement.

                  An Executive's Plan Account shall be allocated an amount (i)
            for the period prior to October 1, 2000; as of September 30, 1989
            and each September 30 thereafter; and (ii) for the period on

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            and after October 1, 2000; as of December 31, 2000 and each December
            31 thereafter, equal to the difference between (A) and (B), where:

                  (A) is the amount of allocations that would have been made to
                  the account of the Executive for each plan year under Section
                  4.5 of the ESOP, assuming the 415 Limit, the $200,000 Limit
                  and the Deferred Compensation Limit were inapplicable, and

                  (B) is the actual Section 4.5 allocation to the Executive's
                  ESOP account for the year."

            10. Effective as of October 1, 2000, Section 6. is amended in its
entirety to read as follows:

            "Section 6. Transition Supplement.

                  "An Executive's Plan Account shall be allocated an amount (i)
            for the period prior to October 1, 2000; as of September 30, 1989
            and each September 30 thereafter; and (ii) for the period on and
            after October 1, 2000; as of December 31, 2000 and each December 31
            thereafter, equal to the amount of allocations that would have been
            made to the account of the Executive for each plan year under
            Section 4.1 of the Transition Plan, assuming the 415 Limit were
            inapplicable and the Executive were a Participant in the Transition
            Plan with the benefit determined by the Benefits Administrative
            Committee. This Transition Supplement shall be the Executive's
            applicable dollar amount for such year as specified in Appendix A
            attached hereto."

            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amendment has been duly executed this 12th
day of December, 2000.

                                         UNIVERSAL FOODS CORPORATION
                                         d/b/a SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

                                         By:  /s/: Richard Carney
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                                                              EXHIBIT 10.1(v)(1)

                             AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE
                                 UNIVERSAL FOODS
                           TRANSITION RETIREMENT PLAN
                     (As Restated Effective October 1, 1998)

            WHEREAS, Universal Foods Corporation d/b/a Sensient Technologies
Corporation (the "Company") sponsors the Universal Foods Corporation Transition
Retirement Plan, as restated effective October 1, 1998 (the "Plan") for
employees of the Company who have satisfied the eligibility requirements of the
Plan; and

            WHEREAS, the Company's fiscal year has changed to the calendar year;
and

            WHEREAS, the Company has changed its name to Sensient Technologies
Corporation, subject to shareholder approval at the annual meeting of
shareholders scheduled to be held in April 2001; and

            WHEREAS, the Company wishes to amend the Plan to reflect such
changes and other matters relating thereto.

            NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is hereby amended as follows effective as
of the date noted below:

            1. Effective as of November 6, 2000, the Plan shall be known as the:
"Sensient Technologies Transition Retirement Plan".

            2. Effective as of November 6, 2000, Section 1.1 is amended in its
entirety to read as follows:

                  "1.1 Name of Plan. The name of the Plan is the Sensient
            Technologies Transition Retirement Plan. It is sometimes referred to
            herein as the 'Plan'. Prior to November 6, 2000, the Plan was
            referred to as the Universal Foods Transition Retirement Plan."

            3. Effective as of November 6, 2000, the Plan is amended throughout
by replacing each reference to "Universal Foods Retirement Employee Stock
Ownership Plan" with "Sensient Technologies Retirement Employee Stock Ownership
Plan".

            4. Effective as of November 6, 2000, the Plan is amended throughout
by replacing each reference to "UFC Stock" with "STC Stock".

            5. Effective as of November 6, 2000, Section 1.3 is amended by
deleting the first sentence thereof and by replacing it with the following: "The
Plan was established effective as of September 8, 1988, to provide a
supplemental arrangement to protect certain non-highly compensated employees
whose benefits under the Sensient Technologies Employees Stock Ownership Plan
were projected to be significantly less than the projected benefits they would
have received under the applicable defined benefit plan in existence prior to
1988."; and by adding at the end of Section 1.3 a new sentence as follows: "The
Plan was further amended
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effective October 1, 2000, to reflect the change in the Plan's Plan Year to a
calendar year, and as of November 6, 2000 to reflect the change in the name of
the Company."

            6. Effective as of November 6, 2000, Section 1.5 is amended to read
as follows:

                  "1.5 Company. The 'Company' means Universal Foods Corporation
            d/b/a Sensient Technologies Corporation, and effective upon approval
            of the shareholders, to be known as Sensient Technologies
            Corporation, or any successor by merger, purchase, or otherwise,
            with respect to its employees or any other company with a United
            States payroll participating in the Plan as provided in Section
            12.1."

            7. Effective as of November 6, 2000, the Plan is amended throughout
by replacing each reference to "Universal Foods Corporation" with "the Company".

            8. Effective as of October 1, 2000, Section 2.12 is amended in its
entirety to read as follows:

                 "2.12 Highly Compensated Employee.

            (a)   For Plan Years beginning prior to October 1, 2000: A 'Highly
                  Compensated Employee' is, for purposes of a Plan Year, any
                  Employee who is a 'highly compensated employee' within the
                  meaning of Section 414(q) of the Internal Revenue Code for
                  such Plan Year. A 'Highly Compensated Employee' shall include
                  any Employee who (i) is a Five Percent (5%) Owner of the
                  Company or an Affiliated Company at any time during either
                  such Plan Year or the prior Plan Year, (ii) received
                  compensation (as defined in Section 9.3 of the Plan) in excess
                  of $80,000 (or such greater amount as adjusted by the
                  Secretary of the Treasury) during the prior Plan Year and, for
                  Plan Years beginning on and after October 1, 1998, was in the
                  top-paid group of employees for such prior Plan Year
                  (consisting of the top twenty percent (20%) of Employees when
                  ranked on the basis of compensation paid during the Plan
                  Year), or (iii) is a former Employee who was a Highly
                  Compensated Employee when such Employee separated from service
                  with the Company or an Affiliated Company or was a Highly
                  Compensated Employee at any time after attaining age 55.

            (b)   For Plan Years beginning on and after October 1, 2000: A
                  'Highly Compensated Employee' is, for purposes of a Plan Year,
                  any Employee who performs service for the Company or an
                  Affiliated Company during the 'determination year' and who is
                  a 'highly compensated employee' within the meaning of Section
                  414(q) of the Internal Revenue Code for such Plan Year. A
                  'Highly Compensated Employee' shall include any Employee who
                  (i) is a

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                  Five Percent (5%) Owner of the Company or an Affiliated
                  Company at any time during either the 'look-back year' or the
                  current Plan Year, (including the short Plan Year period of
                  October 1, 2000 through December 31, 2000), (ii) received
                  compensation (as defined in Section 9.3 of the Plan) in excess
                  of $80,000 (or such greater amount as adjusted by the
                  Secretary of the Treasury) during the 'look-back year' (as
                  such term is defined herein) and was in the top-paid group of
                  employees for such 'look-back year' (consisting of the top
                  twenty percent (20%) of Employees when ranked on the basis of
                  compensation paid during the year), or (iii) is a former
                  Employee who was a Highly Compensated Employee when such
                  Employee separated from service with the Company or an
                  Affiliated Company or was a Highly Compensated Employee at any
                  time after attaining age 55.

            (c)   For purpose of this Section, the following definitions shall
                  apply:

                  (i) 'determination year' means the Plan Year with respect to
                  which the determination of an individual's status as a 'highly
                  compensated employee' (or as a 'nonhighly compensated
                  employee') is being made.

                  (ii) 'look-back year' means the period of twelve (12)
                  consecutive months immediately preceding the 'determination
                  year' except that for the purposes of determining 'look-back
                  year' data, data for the calendar year beginning with or
                  within the 'look-back' year shall be deemed to be the data for
                  the 'look-back year'."

            9. Effective as of October 1, 2000, Section 2.19 is amended in its
entirety to read as follows:

                  "2.19 Plan Year. The period on which records of the Plan are
            kept. Prior to October 1, 2000, the 'Plan Year' is the twelve (12)
            consecutive month period commencing on each October 1 and ending the
            following September 30. The period of October 1, 2000 to December
            31, 2000 shall be a short 'Plan Year'. On and after October 1, 2000,
            the 'Plan Year' is the twelve (12) consecutive month period
            beginning on January 1 of each year and ending the following
            December 31."

            10. Effective as of October 1, 2000, Section 4.1(b) is amended in
its entirety to read as follows:

            "(b)  Notwithstanding paragraph (a) above, for any Participant
                  entitled to share in an allocation for a Plan Year due to
                  meeting the requirements of paragraphs (b) or (c) of Section
                  4.4, the applicable dollar amount multiplied by a fraction,
                  the numerator of which is the number of nearest completed
                  months (employment on the

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                  fifteenth (15th) day of the month being treated as a full
                  month) and the denominator of which is twelve (12) (three (3)
                  for the short Plan Year beginning on October 1, 2000 and
                  ending December 31, 2000)."

            11. Effective as of October 1, 2000, paragraph (b) of Section 6.3 is
amended in its entirety to read as follows:

            "(b)  If a Participant incurs a Termination of Employment prior to
                  entitlement to a Vested Balance in accordance with the
                  requirements of Section 6.2, the Nonvested Balance of such
                  former Participant's Company Contribution Account will be
                  treated as a conditional forfeiture on the last day of the
                  Plan Year immediately following a one (1) year Break in
                  Service by such former Participant. If such former Participant
                  is rehired prior to such date, his or her Nonvested Balance
                  shall remain in his or her account and continue to vest in
                  accordance with the terms of the Plan. If such former
                  Participant is rehired after the last day of the Plan Year but
                  prior to a final forfeiture, his or her conditionally
                  forfeited account balance shall be restored from forfeitures
                  or Company contributions to the Plan. The former Participant's
                  Nonvested Balance shall be declared a final forfeiture upon a
                  five (5) year Break in Service after the Employee's
                  Termination of Employment (a six (6) year Break in Service for
                  Terminations of Employment occurring prior to January 1,
                  1999), and the former Participant shall have no rights to
                  restoration of his or her forfeited Nonvested Balance."

            12. Effective as of October 1, 2000, paragraph (a) of Section 9.1 is
amended by replacing the reference to "(i) $30,000" with "(i) $30,000 ($7,500
for the Plan Year beginning October 1, 2000 and ending December 31, 2000)".

            13. Effective as of October 1, 2000, Section 9.4 is amended by the
addition of the following paragraph to the end thereof:

                  "Notwithstanding the foregoing, on and after October 1, 2000,
                  'limitation year' shall be defined as the twelve (12)
                  consecutive month period beginning on January 1 of each year
                  and ending the following December 31. The period of October 1,
                  2000 through December 31, 2000 shall be a short 'limitation
                  year'."

            14. Effective as of November 6, 2000, Appendices I and II are
amended throughout by replacing each reference to "Universal Foods Corporation "
with "Sensient Technologies Corporation".

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            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amendment has been duly executed this 12th
day of December, 2000.

                                         UNIVERSAL FOODS CORPORATION
                                         d/b/a SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

                                         By:  /s/: Richard Carney
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