No, it's OK. My oldest son drinks a shot glass full of it every day.
So that government can function. Sir Humphrey Appleby, Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister the right honourable James Hacker, stated that if no records were available it would be "the thin end of the wedge; the end of civilisation as we know it."
Of course, Sir Humphrey was awfully fond of hyperbole.
For when the IRS comes calling.