Meat hygiene monitoring

The centrepiece of meat hygiene monitoring is ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection. Ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections are official inspections that check compliance with food, feed, animal disease and animal welfare regulations. The purpose of ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection is to ensure that only meat that is fit for human consumption is placed on the market.

Home slaughter

A post-mortem inspection and, if necessary, an ante-mortem inspection must also be carried out for home slaughtering. Home slaughtering is the slaughtering of an animal outside of authorised slaughterhouses, whereby the meat and the resulting products may only be used in the animal owner's own household.

This also means that this meat may not be given to acquaintances or relatives who do not live in the same household. It is irrelevant whether the meat is given away free of charge or for a fee.

If delivery to third parties is planned, slaughter must be carried out in an EU-approved slaughterhouse.

To register for an ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection, please contact the authorised veterinarians and official veterinary assistants of the Salzland district

Dr Albert Baumeier

Peter Berger

Dr Iris Gregorius

Dr Karsten Müller

Jens Pietsch

Manfred Schinke

Dr Michael Zibolka

Trichinella are nematodes with a parasitic lifestyle. The vector for humans in Europe is meat from domestic pigs, wild boar and other animals that are susceptible to Trichinella infestation. Humans could contract the disease by eating infected meat. To rule this out, it is essential to test the relevant animal species.

Trichinella samples from susceptible animals from commercial slaughter and from wild boar that are not delivered to game processing companies are analysed in the specialist service for veterinary matters and consumer health protection of the Salzland district.

The examination days are Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Trichinella samples can be handed in at the following locations in the Salzland district:

Fees

In accordance with Section 5 Fl/GFlH-AG, fees must be charged to cover the costs of testing for Trichinella.

Since 1 January 2025, the following fees have applied for Trichinella testing:

• Wild boar 12.80 Euro per sample
• Commercially slaughtered domestic pigs € 32.70 per collective batch

Sampling to test wild boar and badgers for Trichinella is an official activity that can be transferred to the hunter in accordance with Section 6(2) of the Animal Food Monitoring Ordinance.

This transfer must be applied for in advance by the hunter at the Veterinary Affairs and Consumer Health Protection Department of the Salzlandkreis district. It is only valid for the Salzlandkreis.

Sampling may only be transferred if

1. the hunter has been trained by the competent authority to carry out this activity

(Evidence of appropriate training in sampling by other veterinary authorities will be recognised).

and

• there are no facts that justify the assumption that the hunter does not possess the necessary reliability for this activity.
• the hunter holds a valid hunting licence and

• hunts game for the purpose of using it as food for their own domestic consumption in accordance with Section 2b of the Animal Food Hygiene Ordinance, or
• sells small quantities of hunted game or meat from hunted game in accordance with Section 3 (1) sentence 1 no. 5 of the Animal Food Hygiene Ordinance.

The certificate of official training in Trichinella sampling must be submitted as part of the application.

Application form

Fees

The fees for the transfer of sampling for wild boar and badgers can be requested from the staff of the above-mentioned specialised service.

Information

After determining the training needs of the hunting organisations, FD 31 offers official training courses in this area.

Duncker's muscle worm, also known as Alaria alata, is a sucking worm that can infect wild boar, among others. The developmental stages of this sucking worm can occur in the connective tissue and fatty tissue of wild boar. Infected wild boar meat can pose a high health risk to humans.

The examination for Duncker's muscle is not part of the routine Trichinella examination.

Due to various wetlands in the Salzland district, the Veterinary and Consumer Health Protection Department carries out risk-oriented testing for Duncker's muskellunge.

In addition, the hunter can expressly request that samples of sharptail deer be analysed for Duncker's muskellunge in our specialist service.

For this purpose, please hand in the corresponding wild boar samples to the Salzlandkreis district together with the completed application form. The sample collection centres in the Salzland district are

The following fee for the examination of wild boar for Duncker's muskeg (Alaria alata) expressly requested by the hunter is:

• 8,00 € per sample