Unbelievable! Outrageous BS. Nature doesn’t have enough supporting data for safety, but their chemicals are fine even after millions of deaths and injuries they’ve made themselves legally immune from all liability from…. That’s fine. You can’t stop this evil system with their system. Think about that please. -Air

The UK has reached a new peak of insanity. Turkey tail and cordyceps mushroom products are now being removed from UK shelves and cannot be legally sold as food or supplements due to a new crackdown by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) re-classifying these mushrooms as "novel foods" because they lacked
"significant consumption" in the UK/EU before May 15, 1997.
This is an extremely bad faith argument because both mushrooms are revered across East Asia (including China, Japan, Korea, and the Himalayas) as potent adaptogens and tonics with zero recorded safety concerns in traditional medicine for hundreds to thousands of years.
Turkey tail grows abundantly in UK forests. So someone please explain how the turkey tail that literally grows wild in the UK is any different than what's been used for thousands of years in a nearby culture? There are zero cases of side effects or toxicity.
Also consider that functional mushrooms are the chosen target here, not the Phthalates, bisphenols (BPA), pesticides, heavy metals, PFAS ("forever chemicals") and literally over 10,000 chemicals routinely added to foods in the UK.
They will tell you it's not a "ban" but actually just a newly required costly pre-market authorisation (typically affordable only by large companies) but the truth is no artisan company actually making a real quality mushroom product that uses turkey tail or cordyceps will be able to jump through the hoops of these "authorisations".
As of now in the UK mushrooms cannot be legally sold as food or supplements. This has forced UK businesses like Bristol Fungarium, Mushies UK, Mogo Farm, and Marvellous Mushrooms to remove products from shelves, despite the mushrooms' centuries-old use in traditional medicine (e.g., turkey tail as a cancer adjunct in Japan) and no evidence of safety risks.
This is a trial run, to see how the population reacts. If there's not enough pushback, you know they're coming for where you live next. This is the on-going battle that will continue to be waged against natural foods and herbal medicines.
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