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Title
Demonstrate knowledge of post-mortem animal product examination
Level
4
Credits
40
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: explain the
purpose of animal products post-mortem examination and the
examination techniques used in post-mortem examination; and
describe the post-mortem appearance and the judgement and
disposition for diseases and defects generic to animals.
Classification
Animal Product Examination Services > Animal Product
Examination - Generic
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Unit 13498, Demonstrate how disease processes affect the
fitness for use of animal products and by-products; or
demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
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Legislation
Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the Animal
Products Act 1999, and the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992.
This unit standard is
Resource documents can be accessed on the website of New Zealand Food Safety
Authority(NZFSA) at http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/
and include but are not limited to
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NZFSA (New Zealand Standards Group) Industry Standard/Industry Agreed
Standards 3 and 5, NZFSA (New Zealand Standards Group) Manual 16, and relevant
Notices.
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Definitions
Animal product refers to any animal material that has been processed for the
purpose of consumption by humans or animals.
Dispositions refers to the action of ensuring that examined animal material or animal
product that has abnormalities is managed in accordance with legislative
requirements.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Explain the purpose of animal products post-mortem examination and the examination
techniques used in post-mortem examination.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Purpose of post-mortem animal product examination is described.
1.2
Animal product post-mortem examination techniques are described.
Range
1.3
view, palpate, incise, smell.
Disease indicator systems generic for all species are described in accordance
with those detailed for post-mortem examination in the service provider’s
documented system.
Outcome 2
Describe the post-mortem appearance and the judgement and disposition for diseases
and defects generic to animals.
Range
diseases and defects of all classes of animals listed as general diseases in
NZFSA (New Zealand Standards Group) Manual 16.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Post-mortem appearances of all generic diseases are described.
2.2
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Judgements and dispositions
for listed diseases and defects are described.
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Range
includes but not limited to the following disease states: acute,
actively progressive, chronic, localised, systemic, generalised,
resolved.
Replacement information
This unit standard, unit standard 13497, unit standard
13498, 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.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
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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