Safety and sales guidelines for wild-foraged mushroom season

LANSING

As the spring wild-foraged mushroom season gets underway, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) is reminding foragers, retailers and consumers that the Michigan Food Code requires all wildforaged mushrooms to be inspected and found safe by a certified mushroom identification expert before they can be sold.

Edible wild mushrooms are a culinary delicacy that many…