Elements and Performance Criteria
- Handle and store velvet
- Equipment required for handling, storing and grading velvet is checked to ensure that it is available, serviceable and functioning correctly.
- Harvested velvet is handled according to food safety and NVAS requirements.
- Individual pieces of velvet are cleaned, weighed and stored according to industry quality assurance and NVAS criteria.
- Grade and sell velvet
- Factors affecting grade of velvet are identified and applied in grading process.
- Industry-accepted grading specifications are used.
- Frozen velvet is transported according to industry quality assurance procedures and sold through national pool or to private clients.
- Sales and personal grading assessments are reviewed and compared with grades and feedback provided by professional graders.