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If you are looking for an organ directly involved with food we eat, it would be the small intestine (with small amounts in the stomach and large intestine, but the primary function of the small intestine is this).

If you are talking chemicals (medicines or the stuff we get out of food) the most common site is the liver, but it is by no means the only site.

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