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Increase the proportion of people who refrigerate food within 2 hours after cooking — FS‑10 Data

Status: Baseline only

  Baseline only

Most Recent Data:
85.0 percent (2016)

Target:
88.0 percent

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

Baseline:
85.0 percent of consumers correctly followed the recommendation to properly chill a soup or stew containing meat in 2016

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Consumers who refrigerate foods promptly, 2016 
(percent)
Increase desired

Population 2016
Total
85.0