MSL954004 Obtain representative samples in accordance with sampling plan

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for MSL954004 ended on 18 December 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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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 20 December 2023. 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.

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).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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For an ASQA-registered RTO that does not already hold it, adding MSL954007 to scope is a change-of-scope application to ASQA, with a fee set by law: A$200 application fee + A$1,100 assessment fee per application (up to 5 VET courses and 50 units of competency). RTOs registered by a state regulator, and ASQA delegates, sit under other arrangements. Source: NVR Fees Determination 2026, F2026L00814, from 1 July 2026 · read 5 September 2026.

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
MSL — Laboratory Operations
Currency period ends
18 December 2022
Latest release
Release 1 · 20 July 2018
Supersedes
MSL954001
Superseded by
MSL954007 not equivalent

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.

  1. MSL954004Superseded — not equivalentObtain representative samples in accordance with sampling plan
  2. not equivalent
  3. MSL954007CurrentObtain representative samples in accordance with sampling plan

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.

  • MSL954001MSL954004equivalent19 July 2018

    Range of conditions removed. Assessment requirements amended.

  • MSL954004MSL954007not equivalent19 December 2022

    Is not an equivalent.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MSL954004 and for its training package MSL (release 4.0), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

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Where MSL954004 is used

training.gov.au lists MSL954004 inside 26 training products, 16 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for MSL954004 in that product.

Current products 16 listed

CodeTraining productTypeMSL954004 is
AMP30216Certificate III in Meat Processing (Food Services)Qualificationelective
AMP30916Certificate III in Meat Processing (Smallgoods - General)Qualificationelective
AMP31016Certificate III in Meat Processing (Smallgoods - Manufacture)Qualificationelective
AMP31216Certificate III in Meat Processing (Packing Operations)Qualificationelective
AMPSS00060Meat Processing Waste Water Environment Officer Skill Set (level 3)Skill setelective
ICP31320Certificate III in Print Binding, Finishing and PackagingQualificationelective
MSMSS00015Bioprocessing using fermentationSkill setelective
MSS40222Certificate IV in Environmental Monitoring and TechnologyQualificationelective
MSS50222Diploma of Environmental Monitoring and TechnologyQualificationelective
PMA40116Certificate IV in Process Plant TechnologyQualificationelective
PMA50116Diploma of Process Plant TechnologyQualificationelective
PMA60116Advanced Diploma of Process Plant TechnologyQualificationelective
RII40720Certificate IV in Civil ConstructionQualificationelective
RII40820Certificate IV in Civil Construction DesignQualificationelective
RII50420Diploma of Civil Construction ManagementQualificationelective
RII50520Diploma of Civil Construction DesignQualificationelective

Products no longer current 10 listed

The register still records MSL954004 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeMSL954004 is
AMP30316Certificate III in Meat Processing (Meat Safety)Qualificationelective
AMP30616Certificate III in Meat Processing (General)Qualificationelective
AMP30716Certificate III in Meat Processing (Quality Assurance)Qualificationelective
AMP40516Certificate IV in Meat Processing (Meat Safety)Qualificationelective
MSL30118Certificate III in Laboratory SkillsQualificationelective
MSL40118Certificate IV in Laboratory TechniquesQualificationelective
MSL50118Diploma of Laboratory TechnologyQualificationelective
MSL60118Advanced Diploma of Laboratory OperationsQualificationelective
MSS40218Certificate IV in Environmental Monitoring and TechnologyQualificationelective
MSS50218Diploma of Environmental Monitoring and TechnologyQualificationelective

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 13 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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