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A lawsuit is pending in Texas court to have manufacterers and distributors remove a meat substitute from the market or provide strong warning labels.
 
Quorn, made from a relative of mushrooms, or toxic mold, depending on who you ask, has caused many adverse reactions in consumers in the US and UK.
 
Some effects are severe allergic reactions, stomach ailments, breathing and skin reactions.
 
Whole Foods, the main US distributor, is named in the Texas lawsuit.

Meat Substitute Made From Vat-Grown Fungus Causes Vomiting ... -

Common Dreams (press release) - 3/28/2006 8:26 PM

The number of people who became sick after eating Quorn, the meat substitute made from a factory-fermented fungus, and filed adverse reaction reports with the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has now topped 1,000. More than 750 of those complaints came from Britons, with 218 from Americans.
 
Because several percent of people who eat Quorn experience adverse reactions ranging from nausea and vomiting to life-threatening anaphylactic shock, CSPI has urged the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. and the Food Standards Agency in the United Kingdom to take the products off the market or at least require bold
 
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