25890 Assist with the Commercial Extraction of Honey and Product Processing

Explanatory notes

1Legislation includes but is not limited to the – Health and Safety in Employment Act 1993, Animal Products Act 1999, and their subsequent amendments.

2Definition

In-house procedures – the verbal or written instructions to staff on procedures for beehive and apiary management, which must comply with legislative requirements.

3Reference

Goodwin, Mark, Elimination of American Foulbrood Disease Without The Use of Drugs: A Practical Manual for Beekeepers (Otaki, New Zealand: National Beekeepers Association of New Zealand Inc., revised edition 2006) (also referred to as The Beekeeper’s Manual available from the National Beekeepers Association of NZ (Inc) (NBA) website at or email .

Outcomes and evidence requirements

Outcome 1

Assist with the commercial extraction of honey and product processing.

Evidence requirements

1.1Hot room is prepared and honey supers stacked in accordance with in-house procedures to warm honey for extraction.

1.2Hot room procedures to adjust moisture in honey, and monitoring is carried out in accordance with in-house procedures.

1.3Honey is uncapped, extracted, filtered and settled out without undue damage to honeycombs in accordance with in-house procedures.

1.4Wax is processed in accordance with in-house procedures.

1.5Supers containing extracted frames are stored in accordance with in-house procedures.

1.6Honey is run off into drums or palleton in accordance with in-house procedures.

1.7Records are maintained in accordance with in-house procedures.

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