Can an RTO still enrol new students in MTMSS00038?

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 4 August 2017. 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 MTMSS00038?

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).

MTMSS00038 Meat Industry Microbiological Testing Skill Set

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.

MTMSS00038Superseded — equivalentMeat Industry Microbiological Testing Skill Set
equivalent
AMPSS00037CurrentMeat Industry Microbiological Testing Skill Set

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.

MTMSS00038AMPSS00037equivalent3 August 2016
This Skill Set is equivalent to MTMSS00038 Meat Industry Microbiological Testing Skill Set.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MTMSS00038 and for its training package MTM11 (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.

MTMSS00038_R1.pdfMTMSS00038 release 1 · product document · published 20 April 2013
MTMSS00038_R1.docxMTMSS00038 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is MTMSS00038 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether MTMSS00038 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

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 MTMSS00038 is made of

training.gov.au lists 15 units for MTMSS00038. 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 15 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
MSL924001A	Process and interpret data	`N/A`	not current
MSL925001A	Analyse data and report results	`N/A`	not current
MSL933001A	Maintain the laboratory/field workplace fit for purpose	`N/A`	not current
MSL933004A	Perform calibration checks on equipment and assist with its maintenance	`N/A`	not current
MSL934003A	Maintain and control stocks	`N/A`	not current
MSL935002A	Assist in the maintenance of reference materials	`N/A`	not current
MSL935003A	Authorise the issue of test results	`N/A`	not current
MSL953001A	Receive and prepare samples for testing	`N/A`	not current
MSL973002A	Prepare working solutions	`N/A`	not current
MSL973003A	Prepare culture media	`N/A`	not current
MSL973004A	Perform aseptic techniques	`N/A`	not current
MSL973007A	Perform microscopic examination	`N/A`	not current
MSL974004A	Perform food tests	`N/A`	not current
MSL974006A	Perform biological procedures	`N/A`	not current
MSL975001A	Perform microbiological tests	`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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