I buy complete fillets and cut them myself for the size I want. (So one fillet doesn't mean one beef wellington.)I bought some mushrooms this week, supporting local growers.
I wonder how many steaks/fillets she had bought recently?...
I buy complete fillets and cut them myself for the size I want. (So one fillet doesn't mean one beef wellington.)I bought some mushrooms this week, supporting local growers.
I wonder how many steaks/fillets she had bought recently?...
This case it seems has had a big negative impact on the Australian mushroom industry.I been eating Mushroom this week, I like to live dangerously (Sometimes)
This case it seems has had a big negative impact on the Australian mushroom industry.
This case it seems has had a big negative impact on the Australian mushroom industry.
Could Body Mass Index affect the severity of symptoms? I suspect that it may - higher BMI possibly reducing symptoms of poisoning symptoms IMO. I've tried to find an answer (unsuccessfully so far.)Just watching that video and some good points raised that there would be a slight difference in reactions to each individual person and age , fitness and so on would play a part.
But we can see she is definitely over weight and doesn’t look like a gym bunny and she isn’t exactly young so it shouldn’t make that much of a difference if she had ingested the same meal as her other guests.
Mooo
From what I've read, the toxic effect is relative to absolute body mass not BMI. If so a child would suffer more than an adult from a smaller dose.Could Body Mass Index affect the severity of symptoms? I suspect that it may - higher BMI possibly reducing symptoms of poisoning symptoms IMO. I've tried to find an answer (unsuccessfully so far.)
From a casual glance, I imagine (ICBW) that all four victims would have been within the normal/ideal range (terminology varies depending on which chart is being viewed). EP's BMI appears to be significantly different from a cursory glance.
Here's a link to a BMI chart - please note that chart uses cms and kgs. Apologies for the ads etc which accompany this link.
The importance of knowing your Body Mass Index (BMI) | Chatswood Medical & Dental Centre
The importance of knowing your Body Mass Index (BMI)www.chatswoodmedicalanddental.com.au
And this from the DM about the mechanism of toxicity was interesting I thought:Could Body Mass Index affect the severity of symptoms? I suspect that it may - higher BMI possibly reducing symptoms of poisoning symptoms IMO. I've tried to find an answer (unsuccessfully so far.)
From a casual glance, I imagine (ICBW) that all four victims would have been within the normal/ideal range (terminology varies depending on which chart is being viewed). EP's BMI appears to be significantly different from a cursory glance.
Here's a link to a BMI chart - please note that chart uses cms and kgs. Apologies for the ads etc which accompany this link.
The importance of knowing your Body Mass Index (BMI) | Chatswood Medical & Dental Centre
The importance of knowing your Body Mass Index (BMI)www.chatswoodmedicalanddental.com.au
Just the guys at my local farm stall. They resell locally grown mushrooms. Maybe it’s specific to those varieties which are more exotic? Maybe they are trying to convince me to buy mushrooms via pity. Ha.Do you have a source for this? I haven’t specifically read any data on this.
Individual packets or envelopes of Beef Wellington would be atypical, esp for a guest list of 4, plus the host and 2 children. That is 7 servings + leftovers.5 or 6 steaks maybe?
All imo
Credit/ The Daily Mail. Author: Candace Sutton
“A strange detail on mushroom chef Erin Patterson's hands that no-one spotted before now shows two injuries to the middle finger of her right hand.”
“Two healing cuts are visible on the 48-year-old's hand in separate filmed interviews in the driveway of her home on Monday, August 7, nine days after she hosted the fatal beef Wellington lunch inside the house at Leongatha, in Victoria's South Gippsland.”
Eerie detail in photo of mushroom cook that no one noticed until now
My first thought was suicide attempts but obviously not. Two or three grazes, perhaps from gardening? or digging--burying something?edited to add it is odd that there is no story here
- Mushroom chef Erin Patterson had visible cuts on her right middle finger
- Filmed with cuts to middle and around nail bed of same finger
- Cuts visible 9 days after fatal Beef Wellington lunch
- Later said she'd dumped mushroom dryer at local tip
the victims were not stabbed to death
any # of ways to produce cuts on one's own hands and not be a killer
Thank you SA.The Herald Sun says otherwise .... (quoted in this article)
GIPPSLAND mushroom grower, Josef Sestokas of Flooding Creek Fungi at Sale, is concerned the alleged mushroom poisoning incident at Leongatha, which left three people dead and another fighting for his life, may have already had a negative impact on the $460 million-a-year Australian mushroom industry.
However, an article in the Herald-Sun this week suggests there’s been a “surprising” uplift in sales of mushrooms at supermarket checkouts as people are reminded of the “natural superfood” qualities of mushrooms.
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‘Absolutely’ nothing wrong with our mushrooms, they say - South Gippsland Sentinel Times
GIPPSLAND mushroom grower, Josef Sestokas of Flooding Creek Fungi at Sale, is concerned the alleged mushroom poisoning incident at Leongatha, which left three people dead and another fighting for his life, may have already had a negative impact on...www.sgst.com.au
Speaking for my family, we regularly eat mushrooms. My family loves them. Always store-bought and grown under strictly regulated conditions. I have not changed my mushroom-buying habits.
Great spotting, TootsieI did notice her hand, the marks on it really stood out.
Maybe it's the first time someone thought to mention it.
I'm sure that plenty of people including me spotted it.
Or that someone wants us to think that mushrooms were the source of poisoning, and IRL it was something else. You wonder what poison resembles mushrooms, clinicallyIMO the most telling aspect of the case is that the Department of Health or whichever authority oversees food safety has declined to institute a mushroom recall.
In the last thread (I think) a member posted a recall notice of produce due to the “use by” date being mislabeled. In that article the concern was possible listeria contamination. Note that no one actually got sick, it was merely caution.
Now here we have a situation where four people became ill, three died and all had symptoms of death cap poisoning yet no recall or even warning about store bought mushrooms was announced.
It suggests that the Department of Health, LE or both are satisfied that neither the supermarket nor the Asian market is the source of suspicious mushrooms. What does that leave? Either they’re both wrong (which is possible) or the death caps came from a different source, one that poses no danger to the public.
Hopefully the case will become clearer once the autopsies and toxicology are complete and we have a definitive COD.
All MOO
Could Body Mass Index affect the severity of symptoms? I suspect that it may - higher BMI possibly reducing symptoms of poisoning symptoms IMO. I've tried to find an answer (unsuccessfully so far.)
From a casual glance, I imagine (ICBW) that all four victims would have been within the normal/ideal range (terminology varies depending on which chart is being viewed). EP's BMI appears to be significantly different from a cursory glance.
Here's a link to a BMI chart - please note that chart uses cms and kgs. Apologies for the ads etc which accompany this link.
The importance of knowing your Body Mass Index (BMI) | Chatswood Medical & Dental Centre
The importance of knowing your Body Mass Index (BMI)www.chatswoodmedicalanddental.com.au
Thanks @Ellery84Great spotting, Tootsie
I agree with much of your post, however the poisonous substance, I would say, in addition to causing the same symptoms would also have to be known to destroy the liver? MooTagetitoxin, which can be isolated from a plant pathogen (can probably grow on tomatoes or other horticultures), can work exactly the way same as amatoxin (mushroom poisoning), i.e., by inhibiting RNA polymerase II. Potentially, an avid horticulturist might cultivate its source and isolate the toxin. Then blame on mushrooms, by the time LE figure out that it was not amatoxin, the victims would be dead. Another possibility - how many poisons have similar initial symptoms? Dizziness, GI upset, nausea, collapse, diarrhea? Maybe, all? With GI upset, probably the first question would be, what did you eat? And the answers would be, mushrooms. In fact, the poison could be anything.