食品衛生リスクアセスメントのジビエへの適用の展望

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Game meat, called as a French name, gibier in Japan, is recently becoming popular in the country. While researches on hazards for food safety are conducted and guidelines and facilities were prepared, risk assessments have not been much applied yet. This paper described available risk analysis and assessment frameworks for food safety as well as disease incursion and pandemic response, and discussed how they can be applied to gibier.

Codex Alimentarius Commission food safety risk assessment framework was the most applicable, but attention should be paid on gibier value chains and cultures on hunting and consumption behaviors. Communication with medical practitioners on the risk may be important and additional conduct of OIE framework consequence assessment for human cases would be beneficial.

In addition to food safety risk assessment, animal health risk assessment for the spread of wildlife disease to livestock population, and also pandemic risk assessment may be necessary. Moreover, environmental risks from over hunting and bullets, and economic risks for the actors along the value chains were found to be relevant.