Has anyone on here had their bear meat or blood analyzed for trichinosis? If so, can you provide some info about where, how much and the process?
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r.
Has anyone on here had their bear meat or blood analyzed for trichinosis? If so, can you provide some info about where, how much and the process?
Cheers
r.
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I thought i've heard of a place in abbotsford that does it but I'm not 100% sure. I wouldn't even worry about it ( i don't ) just practice basic food safe and cook to 160°
Last edited by r106; 06-09-2019 at 09:17 PM.
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Are you particularly worried about a bear you tagged?
"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of it's lonely freedom."
- Theodore Roosevelt
If positive, would you throw the meat out?
When in doubt, just pin it.
I’d assume a bear has trichinosis before hunting for it. You have to cook them all the same anyway.
I don't see the point in throwing it out. Even if the bear doesn't have tric, it probably has something else. They are scavengers, just go 160, or 170 for good measure and let 'er buck.
Also, as I understand it you wouldn't get tric from getting bear blood or meat in a cut. To get trichinosis you have to ingest a decent amount of the larvae which sit dormant in the meat of the bear in calcified cysts. That is until something ingests it and the stomach acids of that something dissolves the cysts letting the little dudes free. Even so, tric sounds pretty mild to me, in a game of would you rather I would take trichinosis over a fair number of other diseases.
"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of it's lonely freedom."
- Theodore Roosevelt
The best way would be to stop eating filthy animals such as a bear