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how is abrin extracted?

"Boiling the seeds in milk and drying will remove the toxic effect" claim should be treated with extreme skepticism

I added a citation needed and dubious tag to this sentence until it is referenced. We're talking about a deadly poison here. Maybe doing this will detoxify the poison, but readers ought to be mighty, mighty careful about believing such a claim.--Hokeman (talk) 23:55, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to this boiled seeds of A. precatorius are eaten in parts of the world, and this section states that the when heated to 80°C for 30 minutes that abrin loses most of its toxicity. If this information is accurate it makes the earlier statement far more likely. 74.185.237.43 (talk) 03:06, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]