News in the hunting world: from now on also the controllers (hunters authorized by Veneto region to cull a certain number of animals to carry out the containment of the animal population) can manage them by themselves carcasses of wild boars, without having to go to authorized slaughterhouses. A clarification that comes from the veterinary direction of the Veneto, which wants to facilitate e encourage the work of controllers, putting them on the same level as "traditional" hunters. The difference in treatment made sense a few years ago, when the numbers were very different.
In our region, the wild boar is a highly invasive species, which damages not only crops, but also native plants and animals: there are over 50 thousand copies. Numbers that need to be checked. "Only in the two management units of Lessinia and Baldo - comments the regional councilor for Agriculture and Hunting -, where both hunting and selective control sampling are authorized, it is estimated that there are a total of 9 wild boars: last year the hunters killed 1359 and the controllers who work in selection were set to collect another 900. It is the numbers themselves that make clear the opportunity on the one hand. to enhance the culled leaders with appropriate marketing initiatives, and on the other hand to facilitate self-consumption without necessarily passing through slaughterhouses.
I thank the Department of Health for the punctuality with which it implemented the ministerial guidelines and the clarity of the information provided to the directors of the Hygiene and animal health services of the Venetian Ulss". Food safety remains guaranteed - highlights the Regional Veterinary Directorate -. The new provisions clarify that self-consumption, regardless of the killing methods, is possible to the extent of one animal for each hunter operator, and will be suspended in the event of epidemic emergency situations.
Furthermore, the Ulss will be involved in the training of hunters and selecontrollers in the skills related to meat hygiene and animal diseases, and all operators must comply with the obligations regarding the identification and traceability of meat, the commitment to prevent all forms of zoonoses, the obligation to analyze the meat for the search for the parasite trichinella, as well as compliance with current legislation on the disposal of by-products (Veneto Economy).