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Byline: Tina Beaumont-Clay
Q: My lights were out from Tuesday until Thursday. Can my frozen dinners still be eaten? What else is safe to keep? _ J., Benbrook, Texas
A: If your freezer was packed full when the power went out, you may have been sweating all that food going to waste. The truth is, a full freezer holds its temperature longer during power outages.
A fully packed freezer, left unopened, will hold most foods safely for about 48 hours; if it's half full, you're in trouble after about 24 hours, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That's because Jack the Germ runs rampant when the temperature is above 40 degrees and below 140 ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Trivia Q&A.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)