MEAT AND PRODUCTS GENERATED FROM HUNTING
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Does the law impose food safety controls on the handling and sale of meat from hunted wild animals? If this applies only to specific species or specific types of hunting, please specify.
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Section 91 -
No person shall sell, or shall prepare, keep, transmit or expose for sale, any milk, dairy produce, meat, water or other article of food which is not clean, wholesome, sound and free from any disease or infection or contamination; and no person shall collect, prepare, manufacture, keep, transmit or expose for sale any such article without taking adequate measures to guard against or prevent any possible infection or contamination thereto.
Section 6 -
(1) No game meat shall be sold in the council area unless it has been supplied by a person registered with the council.
(2) No person shall be registered with the council unless the facilities and the premises which he or she uses for the handling and dressing of game meat have been approved by the medical officer of health.
Does the law require hunters to be trained in basic ante-mortem and/or post-mortem inspection techniques?
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Does the law require hunters to be trained in basic meat dressing and hygiene procedures (e.g. bleeding, evisceration, etc.) or to be accompanied by a qualified operator?
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After wild animal is killed in the field, does the law require that immediate hygienic practices are undertaken including, to the extent possible: bleeding and partial evisceration; partial skinning and/or dressing to minimize contamination of edible parts; removal of animal parts that are not necessary for post-mortem inspection; and retention of the heart, kidneys, lungs and livers for appropriate inspection for abnormalities?
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Does the law require chilling of the carcass as soon as possible after killing, unless rendered unnecessary by environmental conditions?
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