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The Royal Society
for the Promotion of Health
38A St. George's Drive,
London, SW1V 4BH
Tel: (+44) (0) 20 7630 0121
Fax: (+44) (0) 20 7976 6847
rsph@rsph.org
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| Level
2 Certificate in Wild Game Meat Hygiene |
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| QCA Qualification Number 100/5798/5 |
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New
QCA Approved Qualification
Level 2 Certificate in Wild Game Meat Hygiene
The new Wild Game Meat Regulations
come into force on 1st January 2006 and form part of a suite
of new EU food hygiene regulations. They will introduce
strict new controls on the way that hunters sell game and
venison for human consumption. It is estimated that at least
5,000 people will require training before the end of the
year if the regulations are to be met. |
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Background
In developing the Level 2 Certificate in Wild Game Meat
Hygiene RSPH Qualifications was involved from the outset
with representatives of the industry, including trade associations,
gamekeepers, employers and LANTRA
- the Sector Skills Council for the UK environmental and
land-based sector. Therefore, the award provides relevant
and verifiable evidence that the holder's knowledge and
understanding has been assessed and is sufficient to enable
them to act as a competent person in assessing that game
meat is fit to enter the national food chain. Approval from
the Qualifications and Curriculum
Authority (QCA) ensures common standards and approach
to training and assessment, which have also been endorsed
by the Food Standards Agency
the body responsible for implementing the new Food Hygiene
Regulations. |
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New
Regulations
The new regulations state that game meat entering the national
food chain* will have to be assessed by a 'competent person'.
In this case 'competent' means competent to assess whether
the game was behaving normally before it was shot and able
to carry out a field examination of the carcase, making
sure no abnormalities are found and there is no indication
of anything that would prevent the game from entering the
food chain. The competent person will probably be a gamekeeper
or shoot captain and they will need to have been trained
for these duties. Game taken to the game larder to await
collection will be subject to rules and standards on cleanliness,
exclusion of vermin, and refrigeration. If the shoot processes
the game by gutting and plucking, further rules are applied
connected with record keeping and traceability. |
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Registering
as a Centre or Tutor
Level 2 Certificate in Wild Game Meat Hygiene
RSPH Qualifications would expect
that tutors have teaching experience and a qualification
in a relevant subject area, but recognise that experienced
teachers can often compensate for a lack of initial subject
knowledge, or experienced practitioners for a lack of teaching
experience. For the Level 2 Advanced Certificate in Wild
Game Meat Hygiene, RSPH Qualifications recommends that a
small team of tutors is used. |
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A suitable course team might include:
- Tutors with experience of the wild game meat industry
- Tutors with experience of food safety management systems
- Tutors with experience of legislation relating to food and
food premises
- Tutors with a background in Environmental Health
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| View
the syllabus for this course |
Information
on becoming an approved centre |
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| If
you would like to read the Wild Game Handling Guide produced by
FSA which sets out the legal obligations that apply to primary
producers and food business operators in the wild game sector,
and also provides advice on how these obligations may be met please
follow
this link. |
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Patron: Her Majesty
the Queen |
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