Safety Assessment of Castoreum Extract as a Food Ingredient

@article{Burdock2007SafetyAO,
  title={Safety Assessment of Castoreum Extract as a Food Ingredient},
  author={George A. Burdock},
  journal={International Journal of Toxicology},
  year={2007},
  volume={26},
  pages={51 - 55},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:39977652}
}
Low-level, long-term exposure to castoreum extract does not pose a health risk and acute toxicity studies in animals indicate that castoreu extract is nontoxic by both oral and dermal routes of administration and is not irritating or phototoxic to skin.
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