Worms and Parasites
You may also read about catching worms from Raw Foods. This is another theoretical risk we can all catch tapeworms and trichinella if we eat un cooked worm larvae or cysts in meat or offal.
there are two ways to avoid this risk.
1. Buy meat fit for human consumption from a licensed supplier. All meat on the human market is inspected in the abattoir for worm cysts and they are removed or rejected as unfit. Wild meat may contain these tapeworms or "knacker" meat. Even then the risk is not great if you do feed wild unfrozen rabbit etc. go to step 3.
2. Freeze the meat - Freezing kills the worm larvae and cysts
3. . Perform regular worm counts on your pets to check for worm larvae.
Round worms, lungworms and whip worms do not come from eating raw meat.