Apply for permission to take Trichinella samples from wild boar and badgers

If you are a hunter and kill wild boar and badgers, you must have the animals officially tested for trichinae before eating them or giving them to others. Trichinae are small threadworms that can settle as parasites in the muscles of mammals. Wild boar and badgers in particular can be carriers.

The consumption of game meat contaminated with Trichinella can cause serious illness in humans. Safety for consumers is guaranteed by testing.

After testing and a negative result, you may use the game meat as food or sell it to others.

You can also take the meat sample for Trichinella testing yourself. To do this, you need a permit to take the sample. You can obtain this from the competent authority in your place of residence by

• Proof of the required knowledge (proof of training or similar),
• presentation of your valid annual hunting license and
• presentation of your required reliability

apply for it.