Course Title: Manufacture meat and meat products
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C5184 Diploma of Food Science & Technology
Course Title: Manufacture meat and meat products
Portfolio: SEH Portfolio Office
Nominal Hours: 20
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
ONPS5231 |
City Campus |
TAFE |
155T Vocational Health and Sciences |
Face-to-Face |
Term2 2012 |
Course Contact: Toinette Thake
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99254079
Course Contact Email: toinette.thake@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
This unit covers the skills and knowledge required to identify the basic principles of meat, meat processing and meat product manufacture
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
ONPS 5129 Apply an Understanding of the Food Processing Industry
ONPS5221 Identify Unit Operations
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
VBP055 Manufacture meat and meat products |
Elements: |
Identify Meats and Various Processed Meat Derivatives Manufacture a Meat Product Overview of Abattoir Process Overview of the Production of processed Meats and Smallgoods |
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this unit students should have a good understanding of
- the range of meats and meat products,
- the manufacturing processes used to produce a range of meat products
- the chemical, physical and biological hazards in meat production.
- the abattoir process
Students should also have produced a range of meat products
Overview of Assessment
The assessment for this unit is based on
- a theory test
- completion of practical activities plus reports on these activities
- class assignments/worksheets and activities