NOC 2021 · 94143 · TEER 4
Testers and graders, food and beverage processing
Unit group 94143 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Testers and graders in food and beverage processing test or grade ingredients and finished food or beverage products to ensure conformance to company standards. They are employed in fruit and vegetable processing plants, dairies, flour mills, bakeries, sugar refineries, fish plants, meat plants, breweries and other food and beverage processing plants.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- bacon grader
- beef grader
- beer bottling line quality control tester
- beer tester
- beverage and bottle inspector
- beverage inspector
- bread tester
- brewery tester - food and beverage processing
- butter grader
- butterfat tester
- can inspector - food and beverage processing
- candy inspector
- canned and bottled foods inspector
- capon grader - food and beverage processing
- casing grader - food and beverage processing
- cheese grader
- cigar grader
- cigarette grader
- cigarette tester
- cookie and cracker tester
- cream grader
- dairy cream tester
- dairy grader - food and beverage processing
- dairy moisture tester
- dairy product tester - food and beverage processing
- dairy tester - food and beverage processing
- dressed poultry grader
- feed tester - food and beverage processing
- filter tip inspector - tobacco processing
- fish grader
- food and beverage processing grader
- fruit and vegetable grader - food and beverage processing
- gauger - wineries
- grader - food and beverage processing
- grain sampler - food and beverage processing
- ham grader
- hogshead inspector - tobacco processing
- honey grader and blender
- kosher inspector - food and beverage processing
- lamb grader
- liquor tester - food and beverage processing
- mashgiach - food and beverage processing
- meat grader
- milk grader
- milk receiver-tester
- moisture content tester - dairy products
- moisture content tester - tobacco processing
- pork grader
- poultry grader
- process control checker - food and beverage processing
- produce grader - food and beverage processing
- product tester - food and beverage processing
- quality control checker - food and beverage processing
- seed corn grader
- soybean tester
- starch tester - food and beverage processing
- sugar tester
- tenderometer tender - food and beverage processing
- test baker - food and beverage processing
- tobacco grader
- tobacco leaf grader
- tobacco sample puller
- veal grader
- wine tester
- wineries fermentation inspector
- wineries gauger
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.