Alerts

The department will be implementing several changes to the mushrooms and truffles for human consumption and mushrooms for propagation cases. These changes include:

• Addition of several species of mushrooms to the permitted species list for both consumption and propagation.
• Updating naming with current taxonomy.
• Extension of existing permitted mushrooms for consumption and propagation to include all countries (except Agaricus sp. which remains permitted from New Zealand only).
• Merging of the wild harvested and commercially produced cases.
• Simplification of additional declarations for commercially produced mushrooms for consumption.
• Minor formatting changes to the BICON case structures to create consistency across the pathway.
• Updating the dried and medicinal mushroom cases to reflect newly permitted species.

Who does this alert affect:
Importers of mushrooms, truffles and restricted medicinal medicines for human consumption and/or for propagation.

Further information:
For additional information you can email Plant Import Operations Branch at imports@agriculture.gov.au or phone 1800 900 090.