Can an RTO still enrol new students in FDF30203?

For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 31 January 2012. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in FDF30203?

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

FDF30203 Certificate III in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

FDF30203Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
not equivalent
FDF30210Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
not equivalent
FBP30818Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
equivalent
FBP30821Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
not equivalent
FBP30822CurrentCertificate III in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

FDF30203FDF30210not equivalent30 January 2011
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is FDF30203 on your scope?

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Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What FDF30203 is made of

training.gov.au lists 47 units for FDF30203. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 47 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBCMN405A	Analyse and present research information	`N/A`	not current
BSBCMN412A	Promote innovation and change	`N/A`	not current
BSBFLM502A	Provide leadership in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
BSBFLM507A	Manage quality customer service	`N/A`	not current
BSBMGT504A	Manage budgets and financial plans	`N/A`	not current
BSBMGT506A	Recruit, select and induct staff	`N/A`	not current
FDFIMEPC4A	Establish process capability	`N/A`	not current
FDFIMMA4A	Manage internal audits	`N/A`	not current
FDFIMMWB4A	Manage a work area within budget	`N/A`	not current
FDFOPTHCP3A	Participate in a HACCP team	`N/A`	not current
FDFPHCCP4A	Participate in change control procedures	`N/A`	not current
FDFPHFCC4A	Facilitate contamination control	`N/A`	not current
FDFPHGMP4A	Facilitate and monitor Good Manufacturing Practice	`N/A`	not current
FDFPHRNC4A	Respond to non-conformance	`N/A`	not current
FDFPHRWD4A	Prepare and review workplace documentation to support GMP	`N/A`	not current
FDFPHVP4A	Participate in validation processes	`N/A`	not current
FDFPIOWP4A	Optimise a work process	`N/A`	not current
FDFPLPCM4A	Plan and co-ordinate maintenance	`N/A`	not current
FDFPLSCP4A	Schedule and manage production	`N/A`	not current
FDFPMMAC5A	Manage supplier agreements and contracts	`N/A`	not current
FDFPMMPW4A	Manage people in the work area	`N/A`	not current
FDFPMOHS4A	Manage the implementation of occupational health and safety policies and procedures in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
FDFTECCCS4A	Control food contamination and spoilage	`N/A`	not current
FDFTECENG4A	Apply basic engineering principles to a food production process	`N/A`	not current
FDFTECENV4A	Manage the implementation of environmental management policies and procedures in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
FDFTECFAD4A	Apply an understanding of food additives	`N/A`	not current
FDFTECLEG4A	Apply an understanding of legal requirements in food production	`N/A`	not current
FDFTECNUM4A	Describe and analyse data using mathematical principles	`N/A`	not current
FDFTECPAK4A	Apply principles of food packaging	`N/A`	not current
FDFTECPSC4A	Identify the physical and chemical properties of materials, food and related products	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 17 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
FDFTECWTP4A	Manage water treatment processes	`N/A`	not current
MCMC410A	Lead change in a manufacturing environment	`N/A`	not current
MCMS401A	Ensure process improvements are sustained	`N/A`	not current
MCMT421A	Facilitate a Just in Time (JIT) system	`N/A`	not current
MCMT430A	Improve cost factors in work practices	`N/A`	not current
MCMT432A	Analyse manual handling processes	`N/A`	not current
MCMT440A	Lead 5S in a manufacturing environment	`N/A`	not current
MCMT450A	Undertake process capability improvements	`N/A`	not current
MCMT451A	Mistake proof a production process	`N/A`	not current
MCMT460A	Facilitate the use of planning software systems in manufacturing	`N/A`	not current
MCMT461A	Facilitate SCADA systems in a manufacturing team or work area	`N/A`	not current
PMAPER301A	Monitor and control work permits	`N/A`	not current
TAAASS401A	Plan and organise assessment	`N/A`	not current
TAAASS402A	Assess competence	`N/A`	not current
TAAASS403A	Develop assessment tools	`N/A`	not current
TAAASS404A	Participate in assessment validation	`N/A`	not current
TAADES402A	Design and develop learning programs	`N/A`	not current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 14 October 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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