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Not quite medicine, not quite food: how a product like mushroom gummies can fall through the regulatory cracks
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Not quite medicine, not quite food: how a product like mushroom gummies can fall through the regulatory cracks
The Conversation
28/06/2024
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Abstract
Several people across the country have recently been hospitalised after consuming mushroom gummies distributed by Australian brand Uncle Frog and made in the United States. Their reported symptoms included elevated heart rate, nausea, anxiety and hallucinations.
This has prompted a product recall and warnings from local health authorities not to consume the gummies.
Two varieties are affected: Cordyceps and Lion’s Mane. The Cordyceps product purports to offer “natural energy and power”, while the Lion’s Mane variety “supports memory and focus”. Both fungal varieties are infused with hemp.
So what in these products could have made people sick? And how are they regulated in Australia?
Details
- Title
- Not quite medicine, not quite food: how a product like mushroom gummies can fall through the regulatory cracks
- Creators
- Jon Wardle - Southern Cross University, National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine
- Publication Details
- The Conversation
- Publisher
- The Conversation Media Group
- Identifiers
- 991013203813402368
- Academic Unit
- National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Magazine article