The National Food Agency now supports municipalities and regions that want to serve wild boar meat at, for example, schools and elderly homes. This is stated in the proposal that the authority has sent out for referral.

There are proposals for targeted efforts to enable municipalities and regions to procure more local meat. It increases the possibility of eating more environmentally smart, the authority notes, and it also reduces the damage caused by the wild boar.

Easier procurement

One problem with today's procurement is, according to meat producer Oskar Danielsson in Östergötland, that game meat must today compete in price with other meat.

- I hope that the municipality will now do a procurement where the game meat is in focus, so that there is a separate segment in the procurement for just game meat. To make it easier to deliver meat to the municipality in the future, says Oskar Danielsson.

The National Food Agency has also proposed other measures to increase the consumption of wild boar meat. Among other things, they want to simplify for hunters and meat producers.

Easier handling

One obstacle has been that all wild pigs must be checked at a game management facility because the meat can carry on trichines. Now, among other things, the National Food Agency proposes that there should be specially trained hunters who will be able to sample trikines and then sell directly to consumers.

Right now, the National Food Agency's proposal is out for a referral so that authorities, interest organizations and other actors can make their views known. The National Food Agency must submit a final report to the Government by 30 November.

Read more about the proposal here.