Personally I think it's a lottery when you send your head in for testing. This years head was the fourth one I've sent in. It was a head shot so there's not much left intact. The skin eyes and some bones, but the brain and skull is mush so there should not be enough evidence for testing. I am expecting a not suitable for testing result on this animal. However the first three I sent in were perfect for testing submitted into freezer and bagged within three hours of killing. All were chest shots and enough of spinal cord attached to head were left on. Should have been perfect for testing but in all three cases I received a not suitable for testing result.
I think they are just to busy and undermanned so can't test all the heads and just pick and choose some samples from each freezer full that is turned in.
By the way have eaten them all and nobody has gotten sick. This is spanning from the first year it was mandatory in Alberta.
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