[Sca-cooks] Musk flavor?

[Carol Eskesen Smith]

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Musk is usually used in perfumes and will be a different grade form the material for food use.  Check the Code of Federal Register, Food Chemicals Codex (probably a library book; you can buy it on line, but...), etc. for more info.  In either case it is used at very low levels.
Regards,
Brekke (who was amused to have CFR come up faster from a home telephone line than from her work fast access (DSL?)

----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Fox-Davis
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:35 PM
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Musk flavor?

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.

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