Thanks for the responses, and I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!!
I was asking because a friend of mine is in the food and beverage business here locally and we were talking about the availability of “wild game” as table fare. Even though today it’s likely all “farm raised game”; Duck, Quail, Bison, etc. seems to be pretty common. While venison is clearly and well documented as illegal to sell, I couldn’t find anything on Wild Boar/Feral Hogs.
Based on y’all’s responses, I did some more digging over the Holidays and found the following;
SCDNR – Feral Hog Regulations Paragraph 2; “it is illegal to remove a hog from the wild alive, UNLESS it is taken pursuant to a permit issued by the SCDNR at a cost of $50 (50-16-25)”
SCDHEC - Retail Food Establishment Regulation 61-25 Section 3-201.17 that Game Animals CAN be received for sale if; “commercially raised for food, or live-caught, or field dressed.”
USDA – Passes jurisdiction on the FDA; “Most wild game is NOT amenable to mandatory food safety inspection under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) or the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA) and, therefore, products made entirely from wild game are not “meat” or “poultry” under those laws. Products from animals not amenable to the FMIA and PPIA are subject to Federal regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as “food” under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. However, inspected establishments (i.e. grocers, restaurants) ARE required to provide assurance that all ingredients, including non-amenable animal tissues, used in FSIS-inspected products are clean, sound, healthful, wholesome, and properly identified."
FDA – Simply regulates how food is processed, packaged, and labeled. I could not find anything specific to “wild game”, “game animals”, “wild boar”, or “feral pigs”.
CDC – Brucellosis – To prevent; do not consume undercooked meat, when handling were gloves, goggles, and aprons. Symptoms are; flu like and lasting, very similar to mono. To treat infection; con