Assessment of microbial carcass contamination of hunted wild boars

Mirceta, Jovan, Petrovic, Jelena, Malesevic, Milos, Blagojevic, Bojan and Antic, Dragan ORCID: 0000-0003-1301-2732 (2017) Assessment of microbial carcass contamination of hunted wild boars. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH, 63 (2). 37-.

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Abstract

To investigate the microbiological conditions of hunted wild boar carcasses and factors that contribute to the microbial carcass contamination, skin and carcass meat swab samples from 210 hunted wild boars were collected from freshly shot animals. The mean aerobic colony counts (ACCs) and Enterobacteriaceae counts on the skin were 5.2 and 3.6 log10 CFU/cm2, with 1.4% of animals’ skin tested positive for Salmonella spp. Slightly higher mean ACC and Enterobacteriaceae counts of 5.4 and 3.8 log10 CFU/cm2 were obtained from carcass meat with Salmonella spp. prevalence of 1.9%. Inadequate hygiene practices in handling and dressing wild boar carcasses, such as evisceration in the laying position on the ground and practice of skin and interior carcass surface washing after evisceration, were found to have the most significant influence on the microbiological conditions of final carcasses. Therefore, these findings indicate the need for the implementation and strict adherence to good hygiene practice in hunting estates and game handling establishments.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Wild boars, Game meat, Microbial carcass contamination, Process hygiene, Hunting procedures
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	16 Mar 2017 07:20
Last Modified:	15 Mar 2024 00:38
DOI:	10.1007/s10344-017-1096-3
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3006418