[Sca-cooks] Musk flavor?

[Susan Fox-Davis]

johnna holloway wrote:

> Came across the following:
> Musk (Oil): Dried secretion painfully obtained from musk deer, beaver,
> muskrat, civet cat, and otter genitals.  In perfumes and in food
> flavorings. Alternatives: labdanum oil (which comes from various
> rockrose shrubs) and other plants with a musky scent. Labdanum oil has
> no known toxicity.
> http://www.cybersoup.com/anew/health_beauty/beauty/animalprods.html
> This at least turns up in merchant lists and sites, although it's
> expensive and most don't specify food safe.
>
> Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

US Goverment seems to think Labdanum is OK to consume.  Found in a Google
search, keywords "labdanum food"... this is connected with a web page
about absinthe, interestingly enough.

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/law/law_fed_additives.shtml

Selene C.