In preparation for a talk at the 2019 Bar Convent Berlin where Camper English spoke on CocktailSafe topics, several pages of this website were updated with information on legal limits for several ingredients. 

These include: 

• Coumarin/Tonka Beans/Bison Grass
• Bitter Almonds
• Sassafras
• Calamus
• Thujone and Wormwood
• Licorice
• Carbon Black and Activated Charcoal 

For Halloween, the US FDA issued a video about the dangers of too much black licorice due to its glycyrrhizin. Licorice root is sometimes added to gins and other alcoholic beverages and the quantities of glycyrrhizin are regulated as discussed here on CocktailSafe. 

Watch above or follow the link to the video here. 

Imbibe Magazine reached out to us to write about ingredients and techniques to use with caution behind the bar. 

You can read the entire issue online as a digital magazine at this link.