How do I force a safari safe browsing security update?

Just to be safe I'd like to force the latest safe browsing update on Safari.
How do I do that?

The safebrowsing.db file contains the blacklists from Google’s Safe Browsing Initiative - the file was probably created when you first launched Safari, and if you have the browser open, the file is modified approximately every 30 minutes.
In other words it is part of Safari's anti-phishing security feature. As it is a cache file it would presumably be re-created next time you open Safari, but would have to rebuild its cache of potentially bad sites.
It will be recreated next time you open Safari, and will then start again collecting details of dodgy websites.
How the Anti-Phishing feature of Safari 3.2 onwards works:
http://www.macworld.com/article/137094/2008/11/safari_safe_browsing.html

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