Spoon wood?

[Jim-Iowa]

Went out to the woodpile and selected a Maple log that had been on the pile for over a year.
Ripped it down into a spoon blank and noticed it had some dark streaks,that might be spalting? I was intending this for Kitchen use, should I be concerned?

[CarverFromNoWhere]

Depends on if it's spalting or just a stain, could ya post some pics? I wouldn't use any spalted wood anywhere near my mouth, or work with it without a respirator. It's really bad if ya get the spalt mold in your lungs it is often diagnosed as lung cancer, that spalt just loves warm moist places like the lungs. My grandfather had this happen last year and I hear about it all the time around the woodturning community, we had a pig who sufferd from this, he aparently picked it up from a pile of moldy hay.
Carl