Healthy Living

Don’t forget to refrigerate, store food within two hour

After you enjoy your Thanksgiving meal, be sure to refrigerate and store food within two hours. 

Meredith Carothers, a food safety expert with the US Department of Agriculture, says consumers should consider doing these things to avoid the “danger zone” – the temperature range between 40 and 140 °F in which bacteria can grow rapidly.

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For Thanksgiving food safety questions, call the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854), email [email protected], or chat live at ask.usda.gov from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.