Status: Active
Date issued: 15 May 2018
Issued by: Professor Charles Guest, Chief Health Officer, Victoria
Issued to: General practitioners and consumers
Key messages
- Extreme caution is advised when picking and consuming wild mushrooms - if in doubt, don’t consume.
- Poisonous mushrooms including Death Cap mushrooms and Yellow-staining mushrooms are currently growing around Victoria as a result of recent heavy rains.
- Cooking, peeling or drying these mushrooms does not remove or inactivate the poison.
- There is no home test available to distinguish safe and edible mushrooms from poisonous mushrooms.
- Mushrooms purchased from a supermarket, greengrocer or other reputable source are safe to eat.
Read the full alert: Poisonous mushrooms growing in Melbourne Authorised by the Victorian Government, 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne.