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| Food safety programs
The Authority is developing resources to help wild game meat harvesters meet their legal requirements.
Two food safety programs will be made available once industry consultation has been completed, one for wild game meat field depots and one for wild game meat field harvesters.
Circulars
- General Circular 01/2009 (pdf, 121KB), New requirements for a food safety program and commencement of auditing for field depots
Licensees must comply with AQIS Meat Notice Number 2009/04: Additional Requirements for Wild Game Meat Processing for Export (pdf, 233KB). The requirements of this notice will be incorporated into the food safety programs.
The food safety programs will help industry to standardise food safety practices and trace wild game meat to the property from which the animal was harvested.
Audits of the Australian wild game meat industry identified that some changes are necessary to retain markets.
New measures
These were developed in 2009 after significant consultation with industry. The measures relate to changes in:
- carcase tagging procedures
- field depot temperature monitoring and recording
- carcase transport from field depots to processing establishments, and
- carcase receival and handling procedures (for facilities that process carcases) including implementation of a maximum time between harvest and processing for human consumption.
These requirements and typical operating procedures are included in the food safety programs.
The changes are consistent with the Australian Standard for the Hygienic Production of Wild Game Meat for Human Consumption (AS 4464:2007).
These food safety programs are similar to those that have been developed by other state regulatory agencies (eg SafeFood Queensland) and will be used during audits and inspections.
Resources
A copy of the Wild Game Meat Field Harvesters Food Safety Program will be mailed to each licensed harvester in NSW once complete.
The Wild Game Meat Field Depot Food Safety Program will be available on this website.
Licensees will be notified when these documents are available.
Also on this site
- Risk assessment of Food Safety Schemes
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