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Wild game Flashcards

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What are the main products of wild game?

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  • Velvet antler
  • Leather
  • Feathers
  • Meat
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What are domestic ungulates?

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Domestic bovine, porcine, ovine and caprine animals and domestic solipeds

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What are lagomorphoes?

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Rabbits, hares and rodents

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What is meant by wild game?

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  • Wild ungulates and lagomorphs, and other land mammals hunted for human consumption
  • Defined as wild game under applicable law in member state concerned
  • Wild birds hunted for human consumption
  • Includes mammals living enclosed territory under conditions of freedom similar to those of wild game
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What is small wild game?

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Wild game birds and lagomorphs living freely in the wild

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What is large wild game?

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Wild land mammals living freely in the wild, that do not fall within definition of small wild game

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What is meant by park game?

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Refers to deer herds that roam freely in protected park lands, fall into wild game definition as are not farmed

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What is required before the shooting of wild game?

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  • Stalking
  • Hunter must observe game and note abnormalities
  • Assess: level of alertness, carriage of head, limbs, general condition and quality of movement
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Where can wild meat be processed?

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  • Only Authorised Game Handling Establishments (AGHEs)
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Who performs the AMI of wild game?

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  • No official AMI

- Declaration from hunter required with large game

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Who performs the PMI of wild game?

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  • Large: OV or MHI in AGHE, or trained hunter in the field if sold directly to establishments e.g. pub
  • Small: only performed on 50 carcasses or 5% of animals per submitted batch if taken to AGHE, otherwise trained hunter (but no declaration needed)
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What are the legal requirements where small quantities of wild game are supplied to the final consumer/retailer?

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  • Not all legislation applies as are not a food business
  • Still responsible for safe meat
  • No vet inspection, local authority only
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What are the legal requirements where are supplying game in fur or feather to an AGHE?

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  • Are a food business
  • Need to be registered with local authroty and comply with regulations
  • No vet inspection needed, but need Trained Person Declaration
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What are the legal requirements where are larder owner or transporter of game meat in fur or feather to an AGHE?

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  • Comply with hygiene requirements regarding transport
  • Registered with Local Authority
  • Ensure trained declaration available to FBO at AGHE
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What are the legal requirements if you shoot and cook game and supply to the final consumer?

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  • Inform LA
  • Comply with hygiene requirements
  • Have HACCP based system in place
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What are the legal requirements if the main business is preparation of game meat from brought in carcasses which then sell onward to wholesale and retail consumers?

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  • Are a food business
  • Contact FSA to obtain AGHE license instead of registering with LA
  • Comply with hygiene regulations and HACCP based system in place
  • Only accept large game that has been examined by Trained Hunter
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What is meant by a Trained Hunter?

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  • Someone with sufficient knowledge of pathology of wild game and production and handling of wild game meat after hunting to undertake initial examination of wild game on the spot
  • Does not have to be the hunter
  • training provided by Lantra, National Gamekeepers Organisation (NGO)
  • Qualified professionals e.g. vets, doctors, Environmental Health Officers or Meat Inspectors will automatically be qualified as Trained Persons
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What must be included in the inspection by a trained person?

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  • Examination of body, and in case of large wild game, any viscera removed
  • If unexpectedly unavailable, all viscera except intestines and stomach must accompany the body
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What must be included on the Trained Person/Hunter Declaration?

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  • Date, time and place of killing
  • Must state: non suspicion of enviromental contamination, no abnormal behaviour before killing, no abnormal characteristics found during examination
  • Numbered with individual licence number, carcass identification
  • Attached to carcass or clearly correlated to relevant carcass
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What are the declaration requirements for small wild game?

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  • NO declaration required
  • If abnormal behaviour, characteristic or environmental contamination suspected, must report to competent authority
  • Recommended that information attached as label to trays in which small wild game is sent to AGHE
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What are the requirements regarding the viscera of feral wild boar?

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  • Susceptible to Trichinellosis
  • Head (not tusks) and diaphragm must accompany body in all cases
  • OV at AGHE will ensure Trichinella testing is completed
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What are the requirements regarding the viscera of wild game deer?

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  • With declaration, body need not be accompanies by head or viscera
  • Without, head (except antlers and horns), heart, lungs and liver but not stomach and intestines, must accompany the body
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Outline the steps in processing of wild game once in the AGHE

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  • Prevent cross-contamination by separation either in time or space of operations carried out on different species
  • Separate facilities for reception and storage of unskinned carcasses of farmed game slaughtered at farm and wild game
  • Ensure all pre-requisites for building, equipment, personnel and raw material re hygiene must be in place
  • Inspection team required
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Outline the AGHE specific requirements

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  • Separation of skinned/unskinned carcasses
  • Separation of large/small wild game
  • ABP do not need staining, no SRM
  • Receive daily inspections by MHI, monthly by OV or when required
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What are the temperature requirements for the storage of wild game?

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  • 7degreesC large game
  • 4degreesC small game
  • 3degreesC offal
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What are the general requirements regarding the processing of wild game?

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  • All hygiene pre-requisites and temperature requirements met
  • HACCP in place
  • Traceable
  • Audited by vet from FSA
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What are the advantages of farmed game over wild?

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  • Meat keeps its organoleptic wild-game qualities regardless of of food
  • Available all year round, not just hunting season
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What is meant by farmed game birds?

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Means farmed birds, including birds not considered domestic but which are farmed as domestic animals with the exception of ratites

29
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What is meant by farmed game?

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Farmed ratities and farmed land mammals other than those referred to as domestic ungulates

30
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What are ratites?

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Flightless birds e.g. ostriches, rhea, casowari, kiwis

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Compare the AMI and PMI of farmed game species and correlating domestic species

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  • If farmed and killed at abattoir, is same as red meat
  • AMI by OV, PMI by OV or MHI
  • If farmed and killed on farm: AMI by AV or OV, PMI by OV or MHI at approved abattoir
32
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Compare the FCI requirements for farmed game and wild game

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  • FCI required for farmed game animals
  • If killed at farm, this is called “Health Certificate”
  • Not required for wild game
33
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Describe the dressing of wild game

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  • Bled immediately after shooting
  • Tie oesophagus
  • Free anus by cutting in full circle
  • Sticking not routinely conducted in wild game and head/neck shot deer = retained blood in carcass
34
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What is examined in the hunter inspection of wild game?

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  • Age, sex, nutritional state, bruising/haemorrhage, indications of faecal contamination or decomposition, local or general oedema, efficiency of bleeding, abnormality of bones/joints/musculature
  • Abnormalities of consistency or colour, condition of pleura and peritoneum
  • Signs indicating presence of veterinary drug residues or poisoning
  • Signs of disease
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What organs are examined in wild game PMI?

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  • Spleen
  • Liver
  • Lungs
  • Heart
  • Kidneys
  • Reproductive organs
  • Head
  • Feet
  • Whole carcass
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Describe the PMI inspection of hte spleen

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  • Examine surface and size
  • Possible diseases: anthrax ifenlarged AND very dark, animal also bleeding from some or all of its natural orifices
  • Enlarged spleen may be result of seasonal changes of past infection
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Describe the wild game PMI inspection of the liver

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  • Examine ortal lymph nodes, surface and substance

- Diseases: liver fluke, TB, hepatitis, Cysticercus tenuicollis, Hydatid cyst, fatty change, tumour, abscesses

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Describe the wild game PMI inspection of the lungs

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  • Examine right and left bronchial lymph nodes
  • Examine mediastinal lymph nodes
  • Examine and palpate lungs
  • Diseases: pneumonia, pleurisy, TB, hydatid cysts, lung worms, tumours, abscesses
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Describe the wild game PMI inspection of the heart

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  • Open pericardium and examine heart muscle

- Diseases: pericarditis, septic pericarditis, cysts

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Describe the wild game PMI inspection of the kidneys

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  • Expose and examine external surface

- Diseases: hydronephrosis, nephritis, cysts

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Describe the wild game PMI inspection of reproductive organs

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  • Examine male and female reproductive tract

- Diseases: tumours, abscesses, retained foeti

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Describe the wild game PMI of the head

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  • Examine lips and tongue (FMD)
  • Examine jaw bones (actinomycosis)
  • Examine retropharyngeal and submaxillary lymph nodes (B, abscesses, actinobacillosis)
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Describe the wild game PMI of the feet

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  • Examine between the cleats of feet

- FMD

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Describe the wild game PMI of the whole carcass

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  • Examine internal surfaces

- Abscesses, TB, bruising (extensive and severe), oedema, pyrexia, emaciation (pathological) and uraemia

45
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Where are Warble Flies notifiable?

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  • In Scotland only

- Affect cattle, deer and horses but is not a notifiable disease in deer

46
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What are the consequences of identification of warble flies, or liver fluke in deer?

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  • Partial rejection of affected area/organ

- Unless jaundice is present with liver fluke (complete rejection)

47
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What are the guidelines regarding the consumption of road kill?

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  • Not allowed to enter the human food chain
  • Animal health status unknown
  • Significant contamination
48
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What are the notifiable diseases of wild boar?

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  • FMD
  • Classical and African Swine fever
  • Anthrax
  • Swine vesicular disease
  • Teschen disease
  • Vesicular stomatitis
  • Aujeszky’s disease
  • TB
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What are the notifiable diseases in deer?

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  • Bovine TB
  • Bluetongue
  • Epizootic haemorrhagc virus disease
  • Brucellosis
  • Anthrax
  • Chronic Wasting Disease
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Describe tuberculosis in deer

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  • Mostly foundin carcass and visceral lymph nodes
  • May also be in lungs and kidneys
  • Purulent material in affected LNs
  • Casefied lesions less common
  • In roe deer, TB lesions may calcify in the lungs, spleen and liver, easily confused with Avian TB (common in deer)
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Describe the steps following suspicion of FMD in wild game

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  • Trained hunter notifies local divisional Veterinary manager (DVM)
  • If still attached to in-fur carcass, FSA stagff may inspect mouth, gums and tongue for presence of blister and/or ulcers if brought to abattoir
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Describe the steps following suspicion of anthrax in AGHE

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  • Check declaration from trained hunter for abnormal haemorrhages detected during gralloching
  • OV to check spleen for signs of congestion, splenomegaly
  • OV to check red offal for signs of abnormal congesting/extended haemorrhages
  • Has never been reported in any species of deer in UK
53
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Outline the risk and control against Lyme disease when dealing with wild game carcasses

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  • Maintain all GHP when dressing carcass in field or elsewhere
  • Transmitted by Ixodes ricinus
  • Common in deer
54
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Where are wild game carcasses stored?

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Larder/collection centre

55
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What are the functions of wild game larders?

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  • Initial cooling of carcass
  • Provide temporary storage to handle wild game carcasses under hygienic conditions prior to dispatch to the GHE or similar establishment
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What is required in wild game larders?

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  • Hygiene
  • Separation of in-fur/feather and skinned carcasses, and eviscerated/un-eviscerated
  • Ventilation
  • Traceability
  • Inspections by LA
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Outline small game handling

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  • Hung up or allow air circulation to allow heat to disperse as quickly as possible to bring to 4degreesC
  • Game carts allow air flow around product, protect from contamination, pests and weather
  • Product transferred to larder in timely manner to avoid deterioration
58
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Outline the transport of small wild game

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  • Vehicles should be designed, constructed and maintained to enable game to be transported in hygienic conditions and minimise risk of deterioration of product
  • Regulated by local authority
59
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Outline the requirements of small game larders

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  • Refrigerated
  • Adequate hanging space for numbers expected
  • pest and rodent proofing
  • Traceability system to identify day and location of shoot
  • If no chill facilities available, procedures in place to transport product for processing within reasonable timescale
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Outline the requirements for dry plucking

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  • Remove diseases/damaged birds prior to plucking
  • Avoid breaking skin on birds during plucking
  • Provide appropriate supervision and use trained/experienced staff
  • Separation of plucked/unplucked birds
  • Provide adequate handwashing facilities in actual defeathering area
  • All staff wash hands at regular intervals during working period
  • PPE and clean selves at regular intervals during working period
  • Premises in good condition and proofed against pests
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Outline some PMI findings in small wild game

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  • Signs of decomposition (greening/wet appearance under feathers)
  • Fungal growth on surface of carcasses
  • Fly strike
  • Contamination
  • Damage (foreign bodies may be from hunting or not)
  • Abnormal odour
  • Abnormalities of joints (partial rejection)
  • Oedema, ascites
  • Emaciation
  • Generalised presence of tumours or abscesses
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Outline some PMI findings of wild game birds

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  • Bumblefoot
  • Coccidiosis
  • Septicaemia
  • Histomoniasis (black head, enlarged caecae, typical liver lesions)
  • Fleas, lice, mites
  • Avian TB in eviscerated birds
  • Trauma
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What are the notifiable diseases of small wild game?

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  • None in lagomorphs
  • Birds: Newcastle disease, HPAI, LPAIH5 and H7, paramyxovirus in pigeons
  • where 5 or more wild birds dead in same location, report to APHA
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Outline the zoonotic risk from small wild game

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  • Risk from handled carcasses and diseased offal of lagomorphs
  • Mainly vector transmitted diseases e.g. Q fever, Lyme disease, Salmonella, Campylobacter
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What are the marking requirements for game meat ready for sale?

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  • Oval Health mark applied on deer and wild boar carcasses

- Oval identification mark applied to packaging on small game

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