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In the paper above they actually used some liver cells and measured the toxicity to the cells--so they actually did simulate a liver, sort of. Of course that doesn't really say how harmful it may be to a whole functioning human liver. Whole, functioning organs have ways of repairing themselves that individual cells may not.I think the real question is: How do you study hepatoxicity? What would I need to do in order to find out if something is harmful to a liver? Is it only through clinical trials? Is there a way we can simulate a liver, and inject bajillions of FKBs to see if it really does have adverse reactions from it?
We don't know if FKBs cause hepatoxicity. Doing all of this work to stop FKBs from being extracted might be for no good reason.