A charity in Australia has repeated a warning against picking and eating wild mushrooms. The Food Safety Information ...

Aussies have been warned to steer clear of picking or consuming wild mushrooms to avoid deadly poisoning by deathcap ...

I stumbled across an interesting tidbit that is appropriate for this month's theme of poison awareness. I was intrigued and I hope you are as well. There's a small poison garden at Alnwick Castle in ...

Amanita phalloides (the Death Cap) and Amanita ocreata (the Western Destroying ... From November 2016 through January 2018, there were about 1038 cases of mushroom poisoning in California Of those ...

While death caps appear similar to edible mushrooms, eating just a quarter of a teaspoon of one can kill a healthy adult. The Food Safety Information Council has noticed an increase in foraging ...

The East Bay Regional Park District is cautioning park visitors that mushrooms popping up during the rainy season may contain dangerous toxins.

Death cap mushrooms, found predominantly in cooler climates, can also be fatal when ingested by animals and humans. UQ deputy head of veterinary science Rachel Allavena, an animal toxicology expert, ...