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Discovery & Development...
Senomyx is discovering and developing innovative flavor ingredients for the food, beverage, and ingredient supply industries using our unique proprietary technologies. We believe that our novel flavors, flavor enhancers, and bitter blockers will enable our collaborators to improve the nutritional profile of their products and/or achieve a competitive advantage while maintaining or enhancing taste.
The Company's key flavor programs focus on the discovery and development of savory, sweet and salt flavor ingredients that are intended to allow for the reduction of MSG, sugar and salt in food and beverage products. In addition, Senomyx has a bitter blocker program to reduce or block bitter tastes and thereby improve the taste characteristics of foods, beverages and pharmaceutical products. Senomyx also has a cool flavor program for the discovery of novel flavor ingredients intended to provide a cooling taste effect for confectioneries, foods and beverages, as well as oral care and OTC healthcare products.
Commercialization...
Senomyx has six savory flavors that were discovered and developed in-house and have received regulatory approval in the U.S. and many additional countries. Nestlé is currently marketing products that contain one of Senomyx's Savory Flavors in the Pacific Rim, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
Ajinomoto, Co., Inc. is currently introducing products that contain a Senomyx flavor ingredient in Asia, North America, and an emerging market with large growth potential.
Senomyx has received a GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) regulatory designation for S2383, an extremely effective enhancer of the high-intensity sweetener sucralose that was discovered and developed by the Company. The GRAS determination allows S2383 to be incorporated into products such as beverages, cereal, dairy products, baked goods, and confectionaries in the U.S. and in numerous other countries. S2383 can be used to reduce the sucralose in these products by up to 75% while maintaining the desired sweet taste.
Senomyx has granted Firmenich exclusive rights to commercialize S2383 worldwide. Firmenich initiated commercialization of S2383 in the first quarter of 2011.
S6973, which enhances the taste of sucrose (common table sugar), received a GRAS designation that allows usage in numerous food products including baked goods, cereals, gum, condiments and relishes, confectioneries and frostings, frozen dairy offerings, fruit ices, gelatins and puddings, hard and soft candy, jams and jellies, milk products, and sauces. The GRAS status also includes instant coffee and tea, as well as imitation dairy products. S6973, which was discovered and developed by Senomyx, enables the reduction of up to 50% of the sucrose present in product prototypes while maintaining the sweet taste of natural sugar.
Senomyx has granted Firmenich exclusive rights to commercialize S6873 worldwide. Firmenich initiated commercialization of S6973 during the second quarter of 2011.
Collaborations...
Senomyx has entered into product discovery and development collaborations with several of the world's leading food, beverage, and ingredient supply companies. These collaborations provide Senomyx with research and development funding, milestone payments based upon achievement of research or development goals, and royalties on sales of products incorporating our flavor ingredients. We are primarily responsible for the discovery, development and regulatory approval of our new flavor ingredients, while each collaborator will bear the costs and responsibilities for manufacturing, marketing, selling and distributing its consumer products that contain Senomyx flavor ingredients. This arrangement is intended to allow Senomyx to benefit from our collaborators' brand recognition, global market presence, established sales and distribution channels, and other industry specific expertise.
Senomyx is discovering and developing innovative flavor ingredients for the food, beverage, and ingredient supply industries using our unique proprietary technologies. We believe that our novel flavors, flavor enhancers, and bitter blockers will enable our collaborators to improve the nutritional profile of their products and/or achieve a competitive advantage while maintaining or enhancing taste.
The Company's key flavor programs focus on the discovery and development of savory, sweet and salt flavor ingredients that are intended to allow for the reduction of MSG, sugar and salt in food and beverage products. In addition, Senomyx has a bitter blocker program to reduce or block bitter tastes and thereby improve the taste characteristics of foods, beverages and pharmaceutical products. Senomyx also has a cool flavor program for the discovery of novel flavor ingredients intended to provide a cooling taste effect for confectioneries, foods and beverages, as well as oral care and OTC healthcare products.
Commercialization...
Senomyx has six savory flavors that were discovered and developed in-house and have received regulatory approval in the U.S. and many additional countries. Nestlé is currently marketing products that contain one of Senomyx's Savory Flavors in the Pacific Rim, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
Ajinomoto, Co., Inc. is currently introducing products that contain a Senomyx flavor ingredient in Asia, North America, and an emerging market with large growth potential.
Senomyx has received a GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) regulatory designation for S2383, an extremely effective enhancer of the high-intensity sweetener sucralose that was discovered and developed by the Company. The GRAS determination allows S2383 to be incorporated into products such as beverages, cereal, dairy products, baked goods, and confectionaries in the U.S. and in numerous other countries. S2383 can be used to reduce the sucralose in these products by up to 75% while maintaining the desired sweet taste.
Senomyx has granted Firmenich exclusive rights to commercialize S2383 worldwide. Firmenich initiated commercialization of S2383 in the first quarter of 2011.
S6973, which enhances the taste of sucrose (common table sugar), received a GRAS designation that allows usage in numerous food products including baked goods, cereals, gum, condiments and relishes, confectioneries and frostings, frozen dairy offerings, fruit ices, gelatins and puddings, hard and soft candy, jams and jellies, milk products, and sauces. The GRAS status also includes instant coffee and tea, as well as imitation dairy products. S6973, which was discovered and developed by Senomyx, enables the reduction of up to 50% of the sucrose present in product prototypes while maintaining the sweet taste of natural sugar.
Senomyx has granted Firmenich exclusive rights to commercialize S6873 worldwide. Firmenich initiated commercialization of S6973 during the second quarter of 2011.
Collaborations...
Senomyx has entered into product discovery and development collaborations with several of the world's leading food, beverage, and ingredient supply companies. These collaborations provide Senomyx with research and development funding, milestone payments based upon achievement of research or development goals, and royalties on sales of products incorporating our flavor ingredients. We are primarily responsible for the discovery, development and regulatory approval of our new flavor ingredients, while each collaborator will bear the costs and responsibilities for manufacturing, marketing, selling and distributing its consumer products that contain Senomyx flavor ingredients. This arrangement is intended to allow Senomyx to benefit from our collaborators' brand recognition, global market presence, established sales and distribution channels, and other industry specific expertise.
