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Title
Demonstrate how disease processes affect the fitness for use of
animal products and by-products
Level
4
Credits
6
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify and
describe the normal appearance of animal product at postmortem examination; demonstrate knowledge of the causes
and the spread of disease within the body of an animal; and
describe the disease states and their effect on the fitness for
intended purpose of animal products.
Classification
Animal Product Examination Services > Animal Product
Examination - Generic
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Unit 13497, Demonstrate understanding of animal blood and
lymph circulatory systems; or demonstrate equivalent
knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
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This unit standard is
expiring
Definitions
Legislation
Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the Animal
Products Act 1999.
Fit for intended purpose refers to animal product that has been processed such that
relevant risk factors have been managed.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Identify and describe the normal appearance of animal product at post-mortem
examination.
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Evidence requirements
1.1
Range of normal appearances in viscera are identified and described.
Range
1.2
appearance includes – colour, texture, shape, size.
Normal appearances of dressed carcasses are identified and described.
Outcome 2
Demonstrate knowledge of the causes and the spread of disease within the body of an
animal.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Causes of disease are stated and explained.
Range
2.2
physical, physiological, biological, chemical.
Spread of disease within the body is explained.
Outcome 3
Describe the disease states and their effect on the fitness for intended purpose of animal
products.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Disease states are described.
This unit standard is
The effects of a range of disease states on the fitness for intended purpose of
animal products are explained.
expiring
Range
3.2
localised, generalised, actively progressive, systemic, acute,
chronic, resolution.
Replacement information
This unit standard, unit standard 13497, unit standard
13499, unit standard 24501, and unit standard 24506
were replaced by unit standard 27751.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
23 April 1998
31 December 2014
Review
2
23 June 2000
31 December 2014
Revision
3
20 August 2001
31 December 2014
Rollover and
Revision
4
20 June 2006
31 December 2014
Review
5
25 February 2008
31 December 2014
Review
6
19 July 2012
31 December 2014
Reinstatement
7
20 March 2015
31 December 2017
Rollover
8
17 September 2015
31 December 2018
Rollover
9
March 2016
31 December 2019
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0033
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
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.
This unit standard is
expiring
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.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016