RE: [CH] Toxic Capsaicin?

Parkhurst, Scott Contractor (PARKHURS@LEAV-EMH1.ARMY.MIL)
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:29:49 -0500

	> An earlier report (Anticancer Research 4:117-120,
	>1984) revealed the tumorigenic and mutagenic effect of capsaicin.
	>
	>  http://www.tagnet.org/abstracts/search/v5/n3/v5n31.htm

	A search on capsaicin at that home page claimed that
	capsaicin induced adenocarcinomas in the duodenum
	of mice.

	Maybe the Ancho Rat is doing himself in.  

	Scott... KCK