The governing guidelines were published on 25 March health checks on meat obtained from killing wild animals during hunting and wildlife control activities. With this document the State-Regions Conference would like to give useful information to prevent the spread of diseases that could be transmissible from animals to humans, however guidelines they leave wide gates open to pathologies that could make the leap of species from wild animal to man. As is well known, as many as 75% of human diseases come from animals, while most of the emerging diseases (60%) are transmitted by wild animals.
Yet the guidelines provide that hunters, once the animals have been killed, eviscerate them as quickly as possible, thus coming into contact with the entrails and organic liquids of the animals from which they will derive. thousands of tons of meat that will be sold to third parties, shops, restaurants, without any health checks.
It is therefore evident how real the risk is that every hunter can turn into a real one wet markets when it kills, renders and finally surrenders wild animals that have not been subjected to controls to third parties. LAV wrote to Ministers Cingolani and Speranza to ask for their urgent intervention to remedy the serious gap, imposing stringent health checks on every animal killed by hunters, even before they can come into contact with it (Massimo Vitturi - Wild Animals Area Manager).