Question follow-through · 26398
Mushrooms: Novel Foods
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Food Standards Agency on its decision to classify Trametes Versicolor and Cordyceps Militaris as novel foods and plans for assessing the safety of
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 23 Sept 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Food Standards Agency on its decision to classify Trametes Versicolor and Cordyceps Militaris as novel foods and plans for assessing the safety of
3 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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23 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Department of Health and Social Care is the sponsoring department of the Food Standards Agency. Based on the information currently available to the Food Standards Agency (FSA), Trametes versicolor and Cordyceps militaris have not been consumed to a si...
Official data retrieved 25 Sept 2026.
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