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Who decides What is Safe Food?

What is Safe Food ?  Ancient rulers and kings determined food safety by using a food tester. The judgment Was easy: if the tester lived, then the food was proclaimed 'fit victuals' Who decides What is Safe Food nowadays? As food tasters no longer find steady employment, we may assume that eating may be less risk now than in the days of Lucretia Borga,  when adding poison to food was commonly practiced to murder political enemies. Although we currently face little risk of being purposefully poisoned through our food , as in Renaissance Italy, some people fear that we may be poisoned inadvertently by chemicals in the food whose harmful effects have yet to be discovered. Unlike the royal food testers of the past , toxicologists today are primarily concerted with chronic rather than acute exposure to poisons. The tasters have been replaced by scientists from the FDA, academia, and industry. All three are armed with sophisticated analytical equipment capable...