1) Symposium I “Current Situation of Game Meat in Japan”
Risk Management Policy of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for Ensuring Safe Wild Game Meat
2020 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 55-59
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2020 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 55-59
With regard to countermeasures to prevent damage to farm crop by wild animals, e.g. deer and boar, usage of them as meat has been promoted. No hygiene control is applied for them on their feed and health, and therefore they have risk of contamination with a variety of pathogens, such as Hepatitis E virus and Trichinella spp.. The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan takes various measures to ensure the food safety of game meat - development and implementation of the Guidelines on Hygiene Management for Game Meat, measures to prevent it from contamination with radioactive substances and application of hygiene management along with HACCP to game meat processors.
