Game Meat Inspection

Question 1

Where is farmed and wild game processed?

Answer 1

Farmed game (deer, boar, partridge, red grouse)- killed and processed in slaughterhouses
Wild game (pheasant, partidge)- if unlimited quantities and supplying to retail and wholesale: processed in Approved game handling establishmert

Question 2

What are the requirments for retailers of wild game?

Answer 2

Directly to the final consumer or retailers that supply final consumer:
Traceability- Reg 178/ 2002- General food law regulation
Hygiene requirements- T, HACCP, transport

Unlimited quantities for retail and wholesale:
AGHE, general hygiene requirments for primary producers
Comply with regs 852, 853/2004

Question 3

What ante mortem inspection does farmed game and wild game have to undergo?

Answer 3

Farmed game: if slaughtered on farm
* Inspected AM by OV or AV within three days of slaughter
* Bodies accompanied by: vet health cert, FCI, humane slaughter delaration
* If over 2h transport- refrigerated

Wild game:
* Hunters declaration/documentation
* Pre processing
* FBO should examine carcase prior to entry into processing area: death other than hunting, excessive contamination, HACCP

Question 4

What is a AGHE?

Answer 4

• Approved by FSA
• OV
• Duties include: verification of hunters status as trained, HACCP in place, approved protocols for handling ABP

Question 5

What is required for traceability of farmed game?

Answer 5

Deer:
Ear tags, passport
DEFRA herd number or british deer famers association, animals own number

Breeder:
FCI with identity, vet products/treatments with withdrawal

Question 6

What happens if trained person declaration is not available?

Answer 6

Head/viscera inspected
ID’d
Correlated
Otherwise disposal as ABP

Question 7

What is a ‘trained person’?

Answer 7

• FSA approved training
• Registered as food business with LA
• Knowledge and skill to identify abnormal characteristics:
  Abnormal behaviour, environmental contamination, diarrhoea etc

Parasites, tumour, infectino, toxaemia

Question 8

What are the duties of a trained person?

Answer 8

Examination of the body
* Muscle bulk- highly active animals but no nutritional support
* Lean vs emaciated- adipose tissue, coat
* Mucosae
* Natural orifices
* Traumatic lesions- aging, systemic repercussions

Large wild game- remove viscera and examine
* Odour, colour, gas, perforation, oedema, haemorrhage
* If abnormal must accompany carcase- identification of carcase, ensure cold chain maintained

Question 9

What PM inspection is required for farmed and wild game?

Answer 9

Farmed:
Requirments as per non game species
Raddits and ostriches- visual only

Wild:
OV or MHI required

Question 10

What is tested for statutory targeted sampling for residue states?

Answer 10

FSA- farmed and wild, random selection mostly
Large game- kidney, kidney fat, liver and muscle
Small game- entire oven reafy carcasse of bird, traceable

Question 11

What must happen for trichinosis susceptible animals?

Answer 11

• Head and diaphragm must accompany the carcase
• Trophy- approved ABP processing plant, dispatched after test

Freezing not alternative to testing

Question 12

What happens to animals slaughtered uner TB control measures with positive cases?

Answer 12

OV notifies APHA
Any species

Question 13

What happens for large and small game PM?

Answer 13

Large-
* contamination associated with gralloching
* Visual examination of carcase, cavities and offal if present
* Bullet wounds, shattered bones and muscular trauma
* Healthmarking

Small-
* If batch uniform and same species and same source- min of 5%
* Batches <20 100% inspection

Rejection- exposure to pests, unacceptable storage, decomposition

Question 14

What game needs health mark?

Answer 14

Deer
Wild boar
Ratites
Applied by FSA- 6.5 cm x 4.5 cm high letters 0.8cm, figures 1cm
If being sold to another AGHE healthmark not required

Question 15

What are the temperature requirements for small and large game?

Answer 15

Large 7 degrees
Small 4 degrees

Question 16

What are the public health hazards of game?

Answer 16

Handlers during processing- ringworm, ticks
Machinery- cross contamination
Storage- inadequate temp
Final use- consumption

Question 17

What particularities are there to processing wild game?

Answer 17

Large Game:
Samples taken 1.5h after death from skin and muscle

Small Game:
Not permitted to use cloths/paper towl to wipe contamination
Clean paper permitted to remove feather debris and blood
Breast meat can be removed from plucked carcasses or when protected from feather contamination

Question 18

When small wild game are being traded without any processing what needs to be done?

Answer 18

Traded only to another AGHE: ID mark
May be frozen or deep frozen
Stored seperately from skinned and plucked

Question 19

What are the most likely pathogenic hazards from wild game?

Answer 19

Toxoplasma gondii
Brucellosis
Bone fragments
Parasites- ring worm, louping ill, rabies

Question 20

What are notifiable disease in deer?

Answer 20

Foot and mouth disease
Bovine tubercuolosis
Blue tongue
Epizootic haemorrhagic virus disease
CWD- chronic wasting disease

Question 21

What causes lyme disease?
What does it cause?

Answer 21

Borrelia burgdorferi
Non-erosive inflammatory aryhtopathy- arthritis, renal failure