Thursday 10th September 2015
8.30 to 9.00 - Registration
9.00 to 9.10 – Welcome to the delegates (Prof David Argyle, Head of the Royal (Dick)
School of Vet. Studies)
9.10 to 9.20 - Welcome to the delegates (Alex Seguino, Milorad Radakovic and an IRFGMH
representative)
9.20 to 11.00 – Session One – Plenary Lectures
9.20 to 10.00 - John and Nichola Fletcher (Director, Venison Advisory Services Ltd. UK):
Presentation title to be confirmed
10.00 to 10.40 - L. Hoffman (Stellenbosch University, South Africa): African game meat:
opportunities and challenges as pertaining to safety, quality and sustainability
10.40 to 11.00 – Questions and Answers Session
11.00 to 11.30 – Coffee Break
11.30 to 13.00 – Session Two – Microbiology
11.30 to 11.50 - P. Duff (APHA, Diseases of Wildlife Scheme): Overview on zoonotic
diseases of wild game
11.50 to 12.10 - C. Soare (R(D)SVS, The University of Edinburgh): Hepatitis E Virus in wild
game meat
12.10 to 12.30 - A. Seguino (R(D)SVS, The University of Edinburgh): Campylobacter in
pheasants in Scotland
12.30 to 13.00 - S. Laaksonen, A. Oksanen, E. Hoperg (EVIRA, Helsinki): Vector borne
filarioid nematodes, emerging parasites in the Arctic
13.00 to 14.00 – Lunch and poster viewing
14.00 to 14.30 – Posters Session – Two short oral presentations of selected posters
14.45 – Departure from the Vet School
15.45 to 18.00 – Visit to Down Hill Deer farm and abattoir.
20.00 – Social Dinner at The University of Edinburgh “Old College” – Playfair Library
Friday 11th September 2015
8.30 to 9.00 - Coffee/Tea
9.00 to 10.30 - Session One - Quality, quality assurance and the game meat chain
9.00 to 9.30 - T. Valencak (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): Fatty acid composition
of game meat: implications for human health and variability between free- ranging and
farmed game
9.30 to 10.00 - J. Whitehead (Acoura Ltd.): Food Quality Assurance aspects of wild game
meat
10.00 to 10.30 - T. Pennycott (SRUC Research Division): Wild game birds health plans.
10.30 to 11.00 – Coffee break
11.00 to 12.30 - Session Two – Sampling, hygiene and microbiology
11.00 to 11.30 – J. Baily (R(D)SVS, The University of Edinburgh): Challenges related to the
collection of wild game samples and how to overcome them
11.30 to 12.00 - F. Hilbert (vetmeduni Vienna): Antibiotic resistant micro-organisms in
wildlife, farm animals and humans: spillover or spillback?
12.00 to 12.30 - M. Sauvala, K. Jalava, M. Fredriksson-Ahomaa (Univ. Helsinki): Hunting
hygiene, contamination and pH values of Finnish moose carcasses.
12.30 to 12.45 – Final Discussion and closing of the conference
12.45 to 2.00pm – Lunch and Departure