Recalling toadstools discovered in shrews

Spitzmorcheln recalled because of contained toadstools

01/03/2013

Trader Launches Recall for Shrewfish for Contaminated Toadstool Residues. According to a report from the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety, the mushroom shipping company Zollner, headquartered in Bruck, Germany, is recalling its dried spiny morels, „because in a ordered shipment a piece of springtime poison chlorella was found.“

The mushrooming trade had the now recalled mushrooms in the period April to December 2012 via the Internet auction house „ebay“ Germany-wide in packs of 100 grams distributed. The potentially contaminated with toadstools batch bears the expiration date 31 December 2014, the authorities said. Consumption of the products is strongly advised against in the Wednesday food warning. „To avoid health hazards“ allowed the shaggy mussels „no longer be consumed“, so the message on the portal „lebensmittelwarnung.de“ the Federal States and the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety.

Likelihood of confusion when mushroom picking
Since poisonous shells and spiny morels are very similar in appearance and often grow in the same locations, confusion of mushroom picking is quite possible. Although the morels have "at their hat much deeper depressions than the poison chlorella and a slightly different structure, but for inexperienced mushroom pickers, these differences are not always immediately recognizable." In addition, the spring poisoned lobster is considered in some countries as edible mushroom, but there is always a special preparation, by which the contained poison is to be made harmless.

Life-threatening poisoning by toadstools
Raw is one of the most poisonous mushrooms in the world. Even the consumption of a mushroom may be enough to kill a human being. The poisoning called gyromitra syndrome is caused by the contained toxin gyromitrin. This damages the liver - in the worst case up to the acute liver failure and the subsequent death. Although the poisonous effect of boiled poisonous shells is considerably weaker, the intake of low doses of gyromitrin is also said to have a detrimental effect on health. For example, fungal poison is considered carcinogenic and beneficial for allergies. In the face of such risks it is urgently necessary to refrain from consuming the now-recalled dried spiny morels from the mushroom shipping trade Zollner. (Fp)