You can't just assume some piece of food is safe. You need a credible and dependable 3rd party - be it a bureaucracy like the FDA or something else - to let you

You can't just assume some piece of food is safe. You need a credible and dependable 3rd party - be it a bureaucracy like the FDA or something else - to let you know if it is. And there's no shortage of food that was assumed to be safe to eat in the past but turned out to be toxic. Bidaou (aka Tricholoma auratum), for instance, grows in south-western France, and was rated as delicious in some mushroom books as recently as 20 years ago. Selling it has only been banned since 2005. The last recorded death it caused was in 2009. [1] [2] Fools webcap [3] and Deadly webcap [4] were likewise thought to be edible until last century. [1]: https://www.mycodb.fr/fiche.php?genre=Tricholoma&espece=auratum https://www.mycodb.fr/fiche.php?genre=Tricholoma&espece=aura... [French] [2]: https://www.mycofrance.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Lettre-13-mars-2008.pdf https://www.mycofrance.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Lettre-... [French] [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_orellanus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_orellanus [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_rubellus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_rubellus