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Essential food safety management points in the supply chain of game meat in South Africa

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Although the game industry is expanding in all areas, the most essential food safety management points in the supply chain of South African game meat has not yet been described. In order to determine the management points it was necessary to determine the supply chain and then to identify the most essential food safety management points. Information to better understand the supply chain and relevant food safety management aspects was obtained through a desk top study, observation of processes from farm to consumer in the local market as well as during export activities and analysis of questionnaire responses from game farmers, hunters, butcheries and municipalities. The description of essential food safety management points in the supply chain can assist policy-makers; law enforcers and the industry to establish and implement management programmes that will ensure a safe game meat product to the consumer.

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    Biltong is a salted dried raw meat product widely eaten in South Africa and prepared from the muscle of the antelope or cattle (Prior, 2008).

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    South African dried sausage (droëwors) is a ready-to-eat dried seasoned and intermediary moisture meat product which can be distinguished from European types of dried sausages in that it is not cured nor fermented, but preservation is obtained by an artificial drop in pH and subsequent drop in water activity (Burnham et al., 2008; Osthoff et al., 2002).

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The authors would like to thank the Confederation of Hunters Associations of South Africa (CHASA), the South African Hunters and Game Conservation Association (SAHGCA), as well as Wildlife Ranching South Africa (WRSA) for their support with the distribution of the questionnaires.

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Bekker, J.L., Hoffman, L.C., Jooste, P.J. (2011). Essential food safety management points in the supply chain of game meat in South Africa. In: Paulsen, P., Bauer, A., Vodnansky, M., Winkelmayer, R., Smulders, F.J.M. (eds) Game meat hygiene in focus. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-723-3_2

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