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Who cares what the line is? That's just semantics. Every food ingredient should be baseline safe for normal consumption "additive" or not.

• quickthrower2 4y ago
  But guilty until proven innocent is what being suggested here, so you would need to check thousands of different compounds in say coffee and run trials on them all individually?
  • aperson_hello 4y ago
    And to pile on, many of those thousands of compounds are already known to be toxic and/or carcinogenic at high levels.
    • Spivak 4y ago
      This Starbucks is known to the state of California to cause cancer.
      • aperson_hello 4y ago
        To be fair, that specific warning is (probably) due to a different carcinogenic food additive: heat
  • Volundr 4y ago
    Unless you are making your coffee out of an chemical soup instead of coffee beans it would be sufficient to run trials on the beans.
  • joshspankit 4y ago
    The burden of proof would be in the company that wants to sell it. So “you” wouldn’t have to (nor your tax dollars). The company who’s investing resources to bring the product to market would have to. (And it should go without saying that they should also have to fund an impartial third party in order to do that)