Notes from Folks
Safe food Temperatures
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Can you please advise me what are the safe temperatures for keeping cold foods cold and hot foods hot? Thank you. Rhett H. |
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This is a great question and I am glad to help you with the answer. You should hold cold foods at 40 °F or below. Keep hot foods at 140 °F or above. Foods are no longer safe to eat when they have been in the danger zone between 40-140 °F for more than 2 hours (1 hour if the temperature was above 90 °F). |
Be sure and clean sweep refrigerated foods once a week.
At least once a week, throw out refrigerated foods that should no longer be eaten. Cooked leftovers should be discarded after 4 days; raw poultry and ground meats, 1 to 2 days.
Barbara Williams
Creative DVO Employee since 2007
Email Barbara! barbara@dvo.com
