A NEW legal environment Game meat phased approach

In our article published in Wildlife Ranching, issue 5 2019*, the article ‘Legal Labelling – How legal is my “game boerewors”?' stated: “The current challenge for the game meat industry in legal compliance lies in the lack of a game regulation.” The actively debated challenges of the game meat industry and inputs with notes of concern from competitors in the meat market on the lack of game regulations promulgated, are due to be changed. A final draft document, i.e. the Game Meat Regulations**, was submitted to the Minister for signature and needs to be gazetted.

The game meat industry has been developed over a period of more than 30 years and has been discovered, developed and also abused by numerous entrepreneurs, meat processors and retailers, being an affordable, readily available, complete protein food with excellent shelf life abilities.

Unfortunately, the game rancher was never the producer but in actual fact the provision, salamis and other sausages available on the market are thus not mere speculation.