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Evidence Guide: AMPQUA308 - Grade beef carcases using MSA standards

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AMPQUA308 - Grade beef carcases using MSA standards

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Comply with requirements

  1. Identify MSA and AUS-MEAT grader requirements
  2. Comply with all workplace and regulatory requirements while grading to MSA standards
  3. Identify and apply consumer preferences for eating quality traits
  4. Identify factors impacting on eating quality
Identify MSA and AUS-MEAT grader requirements

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Comply with all workplace and regulatory requirements while grading to MSA standards

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Identify and apply consumer preferences for eating quality traits

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Identify factors impacting on eating quality

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Grade beef carcases to MSA standards

  1. Accurately identify and allocate reasons for non-compliance
  2. Identify default inputs required for MSA grading
  3. Assess maturity, MSA marbling, hump height, fat distribution and hide puller damage to MSA standards
  4. Calibrate, maintain and operate equipment used for measuring ultimate pH, and record calibration results
  5. Identify hanging method
  6. Record AUS-MEAT chiller assessment measurements of the carcase to be graded
  7. Generate an eating quality outcome for graded carcases
Accurately identify and allocate reasons for non-compliance

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Identify default inputs required for MSA grading

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Assess maturity, MSA marbling, hump height, fat distribution and hide puller damage to MSA standards

Completed
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Calibrate, maintain and operate equipment used for measuring ultimate pH, and record calibration results

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Identify hanging method

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Record AUS-MEAT chiller assessment measurements of the carcase to be graded

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Generate an eating quality outcome for graded carcases

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Operate MSA software and hardware to record grading details and generate eating quality outcomes

  1. Access and operate MSA software and hardware
  2. Enter, store, upload, sort, check and validate, interpret and submit data
  3. Generate grading reports according to workplace requirements
Access and operate MSA software and hardware

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Enter, store, upload, sort, check and validate, interpret and submit data

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Generate grading reports according to workplace requirements

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Apply vendor declaration information to MSA grading

  1. Identify and interpret essential information on vendor declarations and delivery paperwork
  2. Manage MSA vendor declarations according to MSA Standards
  3. Enter Data Capture Unit (DCU) defaults according to the vendor declaration
Identify and interpret essential information on vendor declarations and delivery paperwork

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Manage MSA vendor declarations according to MSA Standards

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Enter Data Capture Unit (DCU) defaults according to the vendor declaration

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Identify MSA graded carcase product to demonstrate traceability

  1. Identify system for identifying graded product
  2. Apply slaughter floor ticket information
  3. Identify carcases appropriately for carcase sorting and cuts harvesting
Identify system for identifying graded product

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Apply slaughter floor ticket information

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Identify carcases appropriately for carcase sorting and cuts harvesting

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Adhere to the MSA Standards Manual

  1. Complete all aspects of MSA grading according to the Standards Manual and Licensing requirements
  2. Grade carcases according to the MSA system
  3. Identify and resolve grading problems
Complete all aspects of MSA grading according to the Standards Manual and Licensing requirements

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Grade carcases according to the MSA system

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Identify and resolve grading problems

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Assessed

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Instructions to Assessors

Required Skills and Knowledge