Power Outage Walk-In Decision
Make a defensible outage decision using product temperature, elapsed time, and HACCP records.
The power is back. The food-safety decision still has to be made. The walk-in air display is above the cold target after an outage. What is the best first move? Record outage timing, keep the door closed, probe representative TCS foods, and follow the discard or hold action in the plan. Right. This uses monitoring evidence and the planned corrective action. It also creates the record needed for HACCP Principle 7. Keep everything because the food still feels cold and the cooler door was closed. Touch is not a critical limit. A closed door helps, but it does not prove…
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