Re: Toadstool

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:59:17 -0800, Irwell <hook@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:29:34 +0100, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:


In France pharmacists are legally required to provide this sort of
information on request (and need to be competent to provide it).

That seems a big responsibilty to place on a pharmacist. I'd be inclined
to tell the clients they were poisonous, just to be on the safe side.
Some of the toxins in poisonous fungi can kill within half an hour, or
less.

I don't know from mushrooms in the US, but here in Europe there are a
number of quite unmistakeable edible ones and a number of equally
unmistakeable poisonous ones. In between there are lots which don't
taste particularly good but which won't kill you. All the pharmacist
really needs to do is to say OK to the clearly edible ones, Not OK to
any unidentifiable ones, and Don't touch this with a bargepole and go
and wash your hands! to the poisonous ones.

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