Game meat hygiene in focus: Microbiology, epidemiology, risk analysis and quality assurance

Front Matter....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Hygiene and microbiology of meat from wild game: an Austrian view....Pages 19-37
Essential food safety management points in the supply chain of game meat in South Africa....Pages 39-65
Game harvesting procedures and their effect on meat quality: the Africa experience....Pages 67-92
Zoonotic diseases and direct marketing of game meat: aspects of consumer safety in Germany....Pages 93-100
Dog bites in hunted large game: a hygienic and economical problem for game meat production....Pages 101-105
Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) in wild ruminants in Germany....Pages 107-111
Microbial quality of venison meat at retail in the UK in relation to production practices and processes....Pages 113-117
Detection of Alaria spp. mesocercariae in game meat in Germany....Pages 119-125
Hygiene management systems for commercial game harvesting teams in Namibia....Pages 127-130
 Salmonella spp. in wild boar ( Sus scrofa ): a public and animal health concern....Pages 131-136
Preliminary results indicating game meat is more resistant to microbiological spoilage....Pages 137-139
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 Trichinellosis in wild and domestic pigs and public health: a Serbian perspective....Pages 143-156
Influence of climate change on diseases of wild animals....Pages 157-172
Dynamics of infectious diseases according to climate change: the Usutu virus epidemics in Vienna....Pages 173-198
The utility of GIS in studying the distribution of Bovine Tuberculosis in wild boar ( Sus scrofa ) and red deer ( Cervus elaphus ) in Central Portugal....Pages 199-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Risk Management of game: from theory to practice....Pages 209-221
The monitoring of selected zoonotic diseases of wildlife in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy....Pages 223-244
Assurance of food safety along the game meat production chain: inspection of meat from wild game and education of official veterinarians and ‘trained persons’ in Austria....Pages 245-258
Structure and legal framework for the direct local marketing of meat and meat products from wild game in Austria: the Lower Austrian model....Pages 259-266
Approaches to game hygiene in the province Belluno (Italy): from training to meat microbiology....Pages 267-270
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The muscle biological background of meat quality including that of game species....Pages 273-295
Muscle biological and biochemical ramifications of farmed game husbandry with focus on deer and reindeer....Pages 297-314
A summary of methods to assess major physicalchemical and sensory quality traits of fresh (whole tissue) meat....Pages 315-324
Evaluation of some parameters of post mortem changes of pheasant ( Phasianus colchicus )....Pages 325-331
Back Matter....Pages 333-351