IPP issues NRs for Good Commercial Practices when they observe:

• A. Birds being cut and bled out without being stunned
• B. Instances of plant employees mistreating birds
• C. Evidence of a loss of process control in the receiving through pre-scald areas
• D. 20 or more cadavers observed by online inspectors during a shift

Answer: (C)

Good Commercial Practices focus on maintaining sanitary, under-control conditions throughout the early processing steps. When inspectors notice a loss of process control from receiving through the pre-scald areas, it shows the plant isn’t reliably managing critical steps that ensure product safety and proper operation. That kind of systemic lapse is exactly what prompts a Noncompliance Report for GCP, because it reflects a failure to uphold basic sanitary and procedural controls in the most fundamental parts of the process. The other situations involve humane handling or extreme carcass conditions that are addressed by different inspection criteria, not GCP.