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Understanding the Acts and Regulations

Author: OMAFRA Staff
Creation Date: 15 March 2009
Last Reviewed: 15 March 2009

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Did you know that:

Ontario Regulation 31/05 of the Food Safety and Quality Act, 2001 allows for the entry of a hunted game carcass into a meat plant for the purposes of dressing, cutting, wrapping or freezing the carcass or processing hunted game products from it for the owner of the carcass?

However, the following conditions must be met;

(a) The operator does not have any reason to believe that the carcass is contaminated;

(b) The operator has established a hunted game carcass protocol that satisfies the requirements set out in the regulations;

(c) A regional veterinarian has approved the plant for the purposes of receiving and processing hunted game carcasses.

If you are a hunter or an operator of a freestanding meat plant, please be familiar with the above requirements. Anyone with information regarding violation of provincial food and inspection legislation is asked to contact the OMAFRA Regulatory Compliance Unit at (519) 826-4537.


For more information:
E-mail: regulatory.compliance@ontario.ca