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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1866)	1/17/2008 1:09:01 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49165

Panic Shroom Alastair Bland, MetroActive (Silicon Valley, California) Are mushrooms and human hair the organic, 21st-century answer to toxic disasters like the spill in San Francisco Bay? --- YOU ARE what you eat-unless you're an oyster mushroom. In that case, you can indulge in some of the most toxic, noxious petroleum products available and turn them into delicious, photogenic morsels that go wonderfully in white wine cream sauces and Japanese stir-frys with not a carcinogen remaining. Called mycoremediation, this impressive skill of the oyster mushroom has gained substantial press in the wake of the Nov. 7 Cosco Busan oil spill in the San Francisco Bay, and many environmental activists believe that, if pursued by biotechnology developers, mycoremediation could completely rewrite the guidebooks on how to handle the aftermath of future spills. Mycologists have been speculating for years on the possibility of someday employing oyster mushrooms-Pleurotus ostreotus-in toxic waste cleanup projects, and when the freighter Cosco Busan scraped the Bay Bridge and spilled 58,000 gallons of sludgy bunker fuel into the bay, mushroom biologists from Monterey to Seattle quickly mobilized. (9 January 2008)http://www.metroactive.com/metro/01.09.08/cover-fungus-0802.html