🇦🇺 Foetal cells used as “flavouring in fast food”? ❌ The researcher who created the cells decades ago explained they’re only used when testing medicine and food products that are still under development -- they don’t end up in the finished product
, professor emeritus at Canada's McMaster University and the developer of HEK 293 cell line, told AFP that the cells are mainly used in the testing stage of drug and food product development and no foetus cells end up in any food products.
Graham said he developed the HEK 293 cell line in January 1973, when he worked in the laboratory of DrHe explained the cells had been derived from a foetus that died from a pregnancy that ended prematurely. The HEK 293 cell line is one of the most widely used in the research and development of medicines, including drugs, vaccines and gene therapy at the testing and analysis stage, Graham said.
Six out of 10 unintended pregnancies and three out of 10 of all pregnancies end in abortion, the report states.
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