Food Processing Training Package

The Food Processing Training Package covers industry sectors including:

  • Baking (including large scale production of cakes, pastry, bread, biscuits and plant baking)
  • Confectionery
  • Grocery Products and Supplies (including honey, jams, spreads, sauces, dressings, condiments, spices, edible oils and fats and pasta)
  • Fruit and Vegetable
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
  • Poultry
  • Sales
  • Grain Processing (including stock feed, animal feeds, milling wheat, barley, oats and flour milling)
  • Dairy Processing
  • Beverages (including juices, soft drinks, cordials, aerated and still waters, energy drinks and other modified beverages such as vitamin and antioxidant beverages, coffee, tea and ice)
  • Egg Processing
  • Plant Baking
  • Retail Baking
  • Wine


The current Food Processing Training Package, FDF10v2, was endorsed by the National Skills Standards Council (NSSC) on 26 October 2011 and published on Training.gov.au on 4 November 2011.

 

There is an error on the TGA (training.gov.au) website.  The Certificate III in Plant Baking FDF30310 is incorrectly titled Food Processing (Sales).  The document attached to that qualification is also wrong.  TGA is working to fix the problem.  The correct information for FDF30310 can be found here.
 

Endorsed Materials


 Superseded Materials

NTIS is now offline and material from superseded Training Packages is not available on its replacement, TGA. Follow the link below for superseded material related to the FDF10 Training Package.

 

Food Processing Continuous Improvement Projects

AgriFood Skills Australia continues to work with industry to simplify the structure and increase the level of flexibility within AgriFood Training Packages, to respond to the evolving nature of job roles within the industry.

Click on the links below for further information about Food Processing Continuous Improvement Projects. 

 

 

FDF03 Food Processing (Wine)

In Volume 1 of FDF03v3 there are errors in the Packaging Rules relating to two Qualifications. Some sets of specialist units are also missing or incorrect from the unit list for those two Qualifications. Please see below for the corrections.


Changes:

FDF20403 Certificate II in Food Processing (Wine)
On page 159 it stated '8 or more points are from the Specialist units - Specialist: Bottling and Packaging Pool 2'.

  • The words 'Specialist: Bottling and Packaging Pool 2' have been deleted.
  • "Specialist: Cellar Door Operations" has been added to the pool requirement for Specialist/Optional points in Pool 1, Pool 2 and Pool 3.
     

FDF30403 Certificate III in Food Processing (Wine)
On page 229 it stated '12 or more points are from the Specialist units - Specialist: Bottling and Packaging Pool 3'.

  • The words 'Specialist: Bottling and Packaging Pool 3' have been deleted. 
  • "Specialist: Cellar Door Operations" has been added to the pool requirement for Specialist/Optional points in Pool 1, Pool 2 and Pool 3.

Lists of Specialist: Cellar Door Operations Units, Specialist: Cellar Door Sales Units and Specialist: Laboratory Units that should appear in the unit list is provided below.


Corrected Materials:

Packaging of Units for a Qualification (Wine) 
FDF20403 Certificate II in Food Processing (Wine)
FDF30403 Certificate III in Food Processing (Wine)
Specialist Units Cellar Operations
Specialist Units Cellar Door Sales
Specialist Units Laboratory


Background Information

The initial Food Processing Industry Training Package, FDF98, was developed in 1998 under the auspices of the National Food Industry Training Council and funded by the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA).
 

FDF98 aimed to improve the domestic and international competitiveness, productivity, and profitability of the industry by strengthening the competence of the workforce. It incorporated a wide range of industry sectors and offered training pathways across 18 direct entry Qualifications.
 

In 2003 the Training Package underwent a review with significant updates made to the organisation of units, and expansion of options into more technical outcomes and Qualifications at the Certificate IV and Diploma levels.
 

In mid-2008 AgriFood Skills Australia held initial consultations to determine the major issues and experiences with delivery of the FDF03 Food Processing Training Package.  The initial consultations included State Training Authorities, State ITABs, major employer organisations and unions and major RTOs. These consultations indicated dissatisfaction with the complexity of the FDF03 Qualification packaging rules and a desire to improve the overall layout of the Training Package.  There was general satisfaction with the coverage of skills and sectors with recognition that some new units were needed especially at the AQF III level for senior operators.
 

Overall supervision of the Project has been the responsibility of the AgriFood Skills Australia Food Standing Committee.
 

FDF10 now incorporates changes to the presentation of Units of Competency and Qualifications and addition of content, in order to comply with current Training Package guidelines and improve the Training Package layout and outcomes. Further changes have been made to broaden and update the scope of coverage through new and updated units.
 

Some Qualifications and Units of Competency currently endorsed as part of FDF03 are not covered by the FDF10 submission. These Qualifications and their unique units are being reviewed on a separate timeframe and will be submitted later in 2011 as a variation to the new FDF10 Food Processing Training Package. This later submission will cover reviewed wine units and Qualifications, new units and Qualifications in food safety, food science and technology, reviewed food safety and food safety auditing units and Qualifications, and new units and Qualifications in advanced baking, flour milling, malting and brewing and cheesemaking.