“TRAINED HUNTER DESIGNATION” FOR LICENSED HUNTERS SUPPLYING VENISON AND OTHER GAME INTO THE COMMERCIAL FOOD CHAIN
(COMPLIANCE WITH EU DIRECTIVE 853/2004)
Location: Canal Court Hotel & Spa, Merchants Quay, Newry, Co Down, BT35 8HF
Date: Sunday 30th October 2016
Start Time: 8.45 a.m.
The Game Meat Hygiene Course is a well-established National Gamekeepers Organisation course. This is a one day course that covers small and large game meat hygiene from field to larder. Successful candidates will be issued with a unique hunters ID number which authorises them to sell game meat to game handling establishments. This is a legal requirement for all hunters wishing to sell game to game dealers.
The National Gamekeepers’ Organisations game meat hygiene course is now regarded as the industry standard in game meat handling.
The course has a short multiple choice test at the end of the day to ensure competency and is certified and certificated by the NGO and the Food Standards Agency (U.K.) Successful candidates will get a certificate and a credit card type proof of completion.
The cost of this course is Stg.£100 + VAT (£120)
CONTACT NAME: Ann Robinson-Ruddock
CONTACT TEL: 01833 660 869
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REGULATION (EC) No 853/2004 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 29 April 2004
laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin
EXTRACT: “In order to ensure proper inspection of hunted wild game placed on the Community market, bodies of hunted animals and their viscera should be presented for official post-mortem inspection at a game-handling establishment. However, to preserve certain hunting traditions without prejudicing food safety, it is appropriate to provide for training for hunters who place wild game on the market for human consumption. This should enable hunters to undertake an initial examination of wild game on the spot. In these circumstances, it is not necessary to require trained hunters to deliver all viscera to the game-handling establishment for post-mortem examination, if they carry out this initial examination and identify no anomalies or hazards. However, Member States should be allowed to establish stricter rules within their territories to take account of specific risks”.
