Shiitake mushroom place of origin disguise, countermeasures needed quickly in South Korea

Shiitake mushroom producer groups are urging for countermeasures to disguise the country of origin. It is argued that system improvement is urgently needed due to the side effects of the current country of origin labeling law, such as the recent cases of disguising the place of origin of shiitake mushrooms. It is becoming more difficult to crack down on the place of origin = While it has been pointed out that the government’s ambiguity in the country of origin labeling regulations for shiitake mushrooms introduced in 2021 has raised concerns about disguising the country of origin. there is. According to the National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service, three cases of false indication of the origin of shiitake mushrooms were caught between January and June this year. In these cases, distribution merchants were caught falsely labeling mushrooms grown with Chinese inoculation and culture media as domestic, which should be specified as Chinese according to the country of ...