“…The potential risk of liver injury by the use of conventional drugs [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] is shared by a variety of other toxicants such as phytochemicals found in regulatory approved herbal drugs or non-approved herbal medicines like Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) [ 4 , 5 ]. Humans may also experience liver injury due to aluminum, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, lead, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, platinum, thallium, titanium, vanadium, zinc, carbon tetrachloride and herbicides [ 6 , 7 ] as well as pesticides [ 8 ] amanitin of Amanita phalloides [ 9 ], aflatoxins [ 10 ], plants containing 1,2-unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs), contaminating food or drinking water [ 11 , 12 ], and alcoholic beverages [ 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ]. The diagnosis of liver injury due to most of these compounds can be achieved by exposure history, clinical features, diagnostic biomarkers, and after careful exclusion of alternative causes.…”