Reject or Hold the Warm Chicken Delivery
Make a receiving decision from a measured critical limit, not from appearance or vendor pressure.
Receiving is moving fast, but the thermometer has the deciding vote. The raw chicken delivery reads 48 F and your receiving SOP says refrigerated TCS foods must arrive at or below the approved cold limit. What should Maya do? Reject the affected cases, document the temperatures, and notify the supervisor and vendor before the product enters storage. Right. HACCP Principle 5 requires a corrective action when a limit is missed. Documentation also supports Principle 7 records and prevents an unsafe lot from silently joining usable inventory. Move the cases into the walk-in immediately and use them first because cooking will…
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