re barbecued foods and health risk in article c sqv edb acsu buffalo edu sfegus ubvm cc buffalo edu wrote in article cup portal com mmm cup portal com mark robert thorson writes an odd exception to the rule seems to be the product known as gumbo file this is nothing more than coarsely ground dried sassafras leaves this is not only a natural product but a natural product still in its natural form so maybe that s how they evade delany or maybe a special exemption was made to appease powerful louisiana democrats one possible reason is that file is made with sassafras leaves while root beer was made with sassafras bark or root bark the leaves contain either no or less saffrole than the bark there is also some sort of treatment which putatively removes saffrole from sassafras products i have some concentrated sassafras tea extract which is claimed to have the saffrole removed i think what we have to keep in mind is that even though it may be illegal to commercially produce sell food with carcinogenic substances it is not illegal for people to do such to their own food smoking etc is this true well the last time that i went to the store to buy sassafras bark to make root beer there was a sign saying that it wasn t sold for human consumption also when i asked the person if they had wild cherry bark and wintergreen bark she made a point of telling me that i couldn t buy sassafras for human consumption i find the fact that some people reckless enough to step into an automobile live in fear of dropping dead because of a pork rib quite funny in a sick way eric pepke internet pepke gw scri fsu edu supercomputer computations research institute mfenet pepke fsu florida state university span scri pepke tallahassee fl bitnet pepke fsu disclaimer my employers seldom even listen to my opinions meta disclaimer any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers
