Comparative veterinary and sanitary assessment of wild animal meat in the middle Urals

Abstract

Wild meat has long been part of the hunter’s diet. The Urals belongs to the ecologically unsafe regions of Russia, dysfunctional for invasive zooanthroponotic diseases. The annual hunting season is a potentially dangerous event due to the possibility of infection of the hunters themselves and their family members with zooanthoponoses spreading along the food chain. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to assess the intensity of commercial wild animals meat invasion by the express diagnostics using a compessarium and histological examination of veterinary and sanitary evaluation of meat. It was important to identify the highest degree of invasion of animals types. The article presents a comparative comprehensive veterinary and sanitary assessment of the meat of wild carnivorous and omnivorous animals from the Ural region. The grade of wild animals, invasion large degree was revealed not only by intestinal forms of parasites, but also by the larval form of trichinosis. At the same time, was determined a high degree of invasion by trichinella. In case of minor invasion or its absence, wild animal meat should be allowed to be eaten by humans or in animal feed only after prolonged heat treatment, as they are one of the links in the spread of parasitic diseases.