I surely hope that inclusion of the codex by the FDA will address this by removing the liver warnings. The liver warnings are the bane of so many people's kava existence. It's a never-ending battle trying to say the FDA is wrong in their hepatotoxicity assumptions, and they're just that, assumptions.
In regards to the height of the 90s kava craze, I feel like, at least in the United States, we've far surpassed that level in terms of our consumption. Considering we don't have hundreds of thousands of
adverse event reports regarding kava, I believe it's safe to say the fabricated negative safety aspect of kava is simply a scare tactic used by those that don't understand this plant.