Mushroom industry crisis and reputation risk management (MU20006)
This investment strengthened the Australian mushroom industry’s ability to identify, manage and respond to food safety, biosecurity and reputational risks.
Completed project
A scoping study to review fungi based global innovations to inform product development opportunities (MU20004)
Publication date: March 24, 2022
Delivery Partner: Australian Mushroom Growers Association
Running from 2021 to 2022, this short investment explored the use of mushrooms in plant-based food product innovation and informed the industry of new market opportunities and their potential viability in the Australian context.
This project yielded the following key outputs:
Read ‘Scoping Global Innovations’ on page 42 in the Australian Mushroom Journal which provides a summary of the project and its potential benefits to industry.
This project was a strategic levy investment in the Hort Innovation Mushroom Fund
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