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It could be substantially less than 100x. The maximum amount of thujone in the EU is 35mg/L. The US requires that absinthe be "thujone free" but defines that as
by dangerlibrary 12y ago
It could be substantially less than 100x. The maximum amount of thujone in the EU is 35mg/L. The US requires that absinthe be "thujone free" but defines that as less than 10mg/L.
Old recipes (from 1899) have been recreated and measured at 4.3mg/L.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thujone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thujone
- girvo 12y agoAnd in the same article, absinthe from the same time period of those recipes were shown to have > between 0.5 mg/L and 48.3 mg/L and averaged 25.4 mg/L via GC-MS. Interesting stuff!