Have coolers on hand to keep refrigerated food cold if the power will be out for more than 4 hours.

He was also well known in food safety for foodservice establishments and for refrigerated foods shelf-life studies.

The department recommended discarding any refrigerated foods that sat out for more than two hours in temperatures of more than 40 degrees.

The bacteria resembled a group of microbes called carnobacteria that can tolerate cold and are often isolated from refrigerated food.

Some people recommend setting the refrigerator to maximum and the freezer to a point where one's refrigerated food won't freeze.

For a list of how to handle specific refrigerated and frozen foods during power outages, go to www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/pubs/pofeature.htm.

The closings come mainly in refrigerated fresh foods.

Its ability to grow at temperatures as low as 0 C permits multiplication in refrigerated foods.

Others may want to prevent refrigerated food from spoiling, or they want to sleep in their rigs.

Kraft is testing a line of refrigerated foods called the Chillery.