Advanced planning saves your loved ones a lot of trouble and reduces the potential for legal disputes that could arise after death. Transporting a body across state lines isnât an issue that has been highly litigated and therefore attorneys arenât necessarily the best experts to provide practical advice in this area.
Food starts to spoil when the temperature rises above 40 degrees. After food warms to that temperature, you have just two hours in which you can either return it to cold conditions or cook it. In the fridge, produce will survive most power failures, but dairy products should be discarded if they smell or taste sour.
four hours is the maximum for any food at room temperature.     Another perspective   Four hours is too long. Potentially hazardous food should not be left out mâ¦ore than 2 hours. If the ambient temperature is around 90Â°F, cut that to 1 hour. The US Food Code recommends that potentially hazardous food be cooled from 140Â°F to 70Â°F within 2 hours, then further chilled to 40Â°F within another 4 hours.