What is the best way to store foods in my refrigerator?
If you are running a catering business we would strongly recommend that you have separate refrigerators for raw and cooked food. If you cannot do this or you are talking about your home, here are a few simple rules to follow: • Put all raw meat (remember bacon and sausages are raw meat) and fish in containers that are deep enough to catch any liquid that may run off. This liquid is heavily contaminated with bacteria and care must be taken to wash the containers with hot soapy water when you have finished with them. • You must store all such raw foods at the bottom of the refrigerator so they cannot contaminate other foods. • All cooked high risk foods (such as cooked meats) should be placed in clean containers that are either lidded or covered with cling film or tin foil • Remember that salad and raw vegetables can also be contaminated with harmful bacteria from the soil and these must also be stored so that they do not come into contact with high-risk foods such as cooked meats, chees
