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.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 20 December 2023 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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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Superseded by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.

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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 28 August 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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