Thank you! Now that you’ve provided sources, I can evaluate your claim. You’ll have to forgive me for treating you as unscientific — you began this debate by be

Thank you! Now that you’ve provided sources, I can evaluate your claim. You’ll have to forgive me for treating you as unscientific — you began this debate by being “pretty sure” about something which was a chronological impossibility. That sort of hubris often indicates that science-ish misinformation is incoming. Thanks to your links, I found a better summary of the current health research on safrole: https://aacrjournals.org/cancerpreventionresearch/article/8/1/1/50342/Toxic-Phytochemicals-and-Their-Potential-Risks-for https://aacrjournals.org/cancerpreventionresearch/article/8/... If you search within that for safrole, a very thorough summary with many citations is provided. I’ve come away better informed, and will continue making root beer with confidence (the health concerns listed are slight; almost everything is similarly “dangerous”).