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She said she purchased them months ago from an Asian supermarket but can’t remember where. No doubt a cash transaction. I don’t believe for a second she purchased those commercially as there would doubtless be other contaminated batches if so.
As someone who forages for wild mushrooms, I would like to point out that death caps don't resemble edible mushrooms. They are an amanita and are fairly distinctive. Obviously people do die eating these after somehow thinking they were edible, but it's an amateur mistake.
It would not be so noticeable after they've been dehydrated and chopped up, no. They should still be identifiable as an amanita if they're dehydrated and not chopped up, but it would be harder. But whoever gathered the mushroom should have been able to identify it as inedible, unless they were very inexperienced (and thus not likely to be somebody who forages and sells to stores).