By means of Joint Resolution 4/2025, the Secretariat of Health Management and the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries have published the modification of the denomination of edible mushrooms.

ARTICLE 1.- Article 1249 of the Argentine Food Code is hereby replaced and shall be worded as follows: “Article 1249: The term edible fungi means the fruiting body of higher fungi belonging to the Kingdom Fungii (Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes) wild or cultivated and that fresh, dried or canned, are used in human food. For the purposes of this Code for edible mushrooms it is understood by:

• Broken or crushed: those parts of mushrooms that pass through a 15 x 15 mm mesh sieve in the case of fresh mushrooms and 5 x 5 mm mesh sieve in the case of dried mushrooms.

• Charred: whole or cut mushrooms with traces of damage due to high surface temperature or burnt.