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Coumarin and cinnamaldehyde in cinnamon marketed in Italy: a natural chemical hazard?

Food Addit Contam Part A Chem Anal Control Expo Risk Assess

November 2008

National Centre on Food Quality and Risk Assessment, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy.

Some plants that are processed into foods often contain natural substances that may be hazardous to human health. One example is coumarin, which is known to cause liver and kidney damage in rats, mice and probably humans. The main source of coumarin in the diet is cinnamon.

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