Zur amtlichen Untersuchung auf Trichinen anmelden

If you are a hunter and kill wild boar and badgers, you must have the animals officially tested for trichinae before eating them. 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. Only after testing and a negative result may you use the game meat as food or sell it to others.

If you sell the game to a retailer or hunter, the obligation to register for testing for trichinae is transferred to them. If, before or after killing the game, you have identified characteristics that make the meat of the animal appear to be unsafe for human consumption, you must pass this information on to the person taking the sample.

If the sample has been examined by the authorities, the authorities will in turn forward the result of the examination to you. Alternatively, by agreement with the competent authority, you can assume that no trichinae have been found if you have not received a report by a specified date.

• Application
• Game tag
• Authorization for Trichinella sampling

• Hunter kills the animal and marks the carcass with a game tag
• Hunter takes sample and prepares it for submission (packaging and labeling)
• The hunter transmits data in paper or digital form to the authority and makes the sample available for official examination
• Authority checks data set and sample
• Authority examines sample
• Authority communicates the result of the test (alternatively: authority communicates in advance by what date it will report if the samples are not negative)

• Official examination for trichinae certificate
• Officially test meat from wild boar or badgers for Trichinella
• Submit a Trichinella sample with the corresponding game origin certificate to the competent authority
• Submit application to the authority by post or online
• Responsible: Veterinary and food monitoring of the districts and independent cities