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The philosophy of food chemical risk management

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Over the past few years the food safety paradigm has changed and the script has been rewritten. The traditional concept of food safety assurance was one of the powerful regulators policing the food supply industry. Inspectors were lurking in every corner of the food chain, ready to detect contaminated or compromised products and remove them from the grocery shelves to protect the public. The public played no active role in this process, except as the silent, uninformed, potential victim.

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Busta, F.F., Chaisson, C.F. (1997). The philosophy of food chemical risk management. In: Tennant, D.R. (eds) Food Chemical Risk Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1111-9_14

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