NZQA registered unit standard 2498 version 8
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Title Identify beef cuts
Level
Purpose
2 Credits 3
This pre-entry unit standard is for people who seek employment in a meat processing plant.
People credited with this unit standard are able to identify beef cuts.
Classification Meat Processing > Meat Processing - Core Skills
Available grade Achieved
Explanatory notes
1 Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to – Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992, Animal Products Act 1999.
2 Resource documents include but are not limited to – The New Zealand Meat
Specifications Guide, available from the Beef and Lamb New Zealand website at http://www.beeflambnz.com
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3 Definitions
Organisational requirements – instructions to staff on policies and procedures that are documented in memo, electronic, or manual format and available in the workplace.
Company specifications – product specifications set by the company relating to cuts, weights, presentation, and packaging.
Customer specifications – product specifications set by clients relating to cuts, weights, presentation, and packaging.
Outcome 1
Identify beef cuts.
Range beef cuts include but are not limited to
– shank meat, knuckle, thick flank, flank steak, brisket navel-end, brisket point-end, clod, chuck tender, inside round, eye of round, outside round, flat, full rump or sirloin butt, D cut rump, short loin, striploin, ribs, tenderloin, cube roll, chuck meat.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Code 101558
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New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2020

NZQA registered unit standard 2498 version 8
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Evidence requirements
1.1 Beef cuts are identified and named using The New Zealand Meat Specifications
Guide terminology.
1.2 The quality aspects of beef cuts are identified in accordance with company and customer specifications.
1.3
1.4
The location on a beef carcass from which each cut is derived is identified.
The quantity of cuts per carton is identified in accordance with company and customer specifications.
1.5 The disposition of unsuitable cuts is identified in accordance with organisational requirements.
Planned review date 31 December 2019
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process Version Date Last Date for Assessment
Registration
Revision
1
2
31 January 1995
29 September 1998
31 December 2012
31 December 2012
Review
Revision
Review
Review
3
4
5
6
30 August 1999
19 July 2001
21 October 2004
20 February 2009
31 December 2012
31 December 2012
31 December 2012
31 December 2012
Review 7 21 July 2011 31 December 2016
Review 8 27 January 2015 N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference 0033
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
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Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Code 101558
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New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2020

NZQA registered unit standard 2498 version 8
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Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation standards@primaryito.ac.nz
if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Code 101558
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New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2020