THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- As of Dec. 1, hallucinogenic mushrooms will no longer be available in shops in the Netherlands, the nation's top health official has decided.
OTTAWA, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is advising people not to consume Fresh Obsessions-brand sliced white mushrooms due to possible bacterial contamination.
LONDON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- "The Horse Whisperer" author Nicholas Evans reportedly has been hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms he picked while on vacation in Scotland.
OTTAWA, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Continental Mushroom Corp. Ltd. announced the recall of some Continental- and Fresh Obsession-brand mushrooms.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 9 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a two-step process of washing harvested mushrooms greatly inhibits the growth of food-borne pathogens and extends shelf life.
PARIS, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Researchers in France found the button mushroom may have as much antioxidant health benefit as its higher-price cousins.
ATLANTA, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Sheriff's deputies arrested an Atlanta man on suspicion of selling LSD and chocolate bunnies laced with hallucinogenic mushrooms.
DALLAS, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Heavier than normal rains this year in North Texas have led to the increased prevalence of mushrooms on local lawns and gardens.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 22 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania plant pathologist says mushrooms have great potential as biofactories for the production of beneficial human drugs.
ORLANDO, Fla., June 27 (UPI) -- Portabella and crimini mushrooms rank with carrots, green beans, red peppers and broccoli as good sources of antioxidants, according to a U.S. study.
NAGOYA, Japan, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A man and a woman in Japan have died after eating poisonous mushrooms they picked themselves in a forest, health officials said.
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 30 (UPI) -- An Oakland, Calif., woman died and a man and two women were hospitalized after they ate poisonous "death cap" wild mushrooms collected on Thanksgiving.
