Safe Practices for Handling and Consuming Wild Deer and Elk

As part of normal good practice when handling and processing Ontario deer and elk, it is suggested that hunters in Ontario:

• wear rubber gloves when field dressing carcasses
• minimize the handling of brain and spinal tissue
• minimize the handling of bones of the skull and spinal cord when processing their animal
• do not consume the brain, spinal cord, eyes, spleen, tonsils and lymph nodes of harvested animals.

If you plan to travel outside of Ontario to hunt deer or elk, please visit the following page:

• Hunting Outside Ontario