Elements and Performance Criteria
- Separate wools with characteristics outside the uniformity requirements of the Code of Practice.
- Separate wool showing faults that impact on processing or fabric quality.
- Separate wool for dogginess that will impact on fabric quality
- Separate cotted wool that will require extra processing
- Identify and remove skin pieces
- Check wool for dermatitis and kept separate
- Identify and separate wool based on the level and type of vegetable matter contamination where it requires different processing
- Identify mobs with high pigmented fibre risk and keep their wool completely separate from low risk wool
- Identify wool from sheep with shedding characteristics and keep completely separate from non-shedding white woolled sheep, record risk of exposure to shedding breeds on the classer's report
- Keep fleeces containing pigmented fibre in a white woolled flock separate
- Keep wool containing stain separate
- Recognise impurities of greasy wool and their effect on processing and yield.