Assertion: borage | /r/MadeOf | lasiocarpine
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text: Although little information is available on chemical constituents and biological activity of borage extracts, investigations have indicated that borage contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids, such as lasiocarpine, which have been reported to cause liver damage and induce cancer in laboratory animals (11.1-154), though this does not appear to be a problem in the seed oil, used as a commercial source of -linolenic acid