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Jon Wardle, Professor of Public Health, Southern Cross University

Not quite medicine, not quite food: how a product like mushroom gummies can fall through the regulatory cracks

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Several people across the country have recently been hospitalised after consuming mushroom gummies distributed by Australian brand Uncle Frog and made in the United States. Their reported symptoms included elevated heart rate, nausea, anxiety and hallucinations.

This has prompted a product recall and warnings from local health authorities not to consume the gummies.

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