Logs in China<\/a> are made of Chinese sawdust and grain, inoculated with Chinese spawn, and loaded onto container vessels for a six- to eight-week trans-Pacific voyage. When the logs arrive in the U.S., they\u2019re distributed across the country. Many of them end up in Kennett Square mushroom grow houses. <\/p>\n\u201cIn a week to 10 days, the mushrooms are picked and the logs get thrown away,\u201d said Caputo, who called the mushrooms grown on Chinese logs \u201cinferior.\u201d<\/p>\n
Because these mushrooms are harvested in the United States, they meet the USDA\u2019s country-of-origin labeling requirement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re clearly not U.S. grown,\u201d said Daniel J. Royse, professor emeritus at Penn State who specializes in mushrooms. \u201cThe regulations don\u2019t make much sense to me. But the USDA says they\u2019re OK because they\u2019re classified as spawn. The logs actually are colonized substrate, they shouldn\u2019t be allowed. The growers should get together to demand the USDA reevaluate the criteria.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why \"product Of USA\" shiitakes probably aren't. [Shiitake mushroom-growing] Logs in China are made of Chinese sawdust and grain, inoculated with Chinese spawn, and loaded onto container vessels for a six- to eight-week trans-Pacific voyage. When the logs arrive in the U.S., they\u2019re distributed across the country. Many of them end up in Kennett Square […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29490,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29489\/revisions\/29490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}