Editing Tabasco sauce (section)

== Toxicity ==
In a 1982 article titled "Pepper Sauce Toxicity" Tabasco pepper sauce's toxicity was evaluated based on red peppers and vinegar. Sprague-Dawley rats (lab rats) were used as test subjects. The oral [[median lethal dose]] in male lab rats was determined to be 23.58 mL/kg body weight (BW) with an upper limit of 29.75 mL/kg BW and a lower limit of 18.70 mL/kg BW. The median lethal dose in the female lab rats was found to be 19.52 mL/kg BW (15.64 mL/kg BW lower, 24.35 mL/kg BW upper). The sauce was found to be a mild skin irritant and a moderate to severe eye irritant. The toxicity to the eye is mainly caused by vinegar.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Winek |first1=C. L. |last2=Markie |first2=D. C. |last3=Shanor |first3=S. P. |year=1982 |title=Pepper Sauce Toxicity |journal=[[Drug and Chemical Toxicology]] |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=89–113 |doi=10.3109/01480548209017772 |pmid=7128479}}</ref>