How to Clean Your Refrigerator Inside for Health and Safety Part 1

Keeping a clean refrigerator is important not just for aesthetic reasons, but for health and safety. You do not want to encourage bacteria growth or risking food poisoning. You do not want the food you eat to become contaminated. 

You should regularly clean the inside of the refrigerator by throwing out aged or unused foods or produce that were on its last legs or close to expiring. In fact it is a good idea to do a quick reorganizing of the inside of the refrigerator each week before you do your grocery shopping, so you can put away your new groceries in an organized fashion and have the ability to separate the newer items from the old. For example, you may have an open bag of celery but buy another bag of celery, so, you push the older celery in front of the newer celery, so that gets used first. Just like in the grocery stores, you may have noticed that the dates on items are quicker to expire on the front row, than those stocked behind it. I always read the dates on any refrigerated item that is dated. I am one of those people who will reach back further to compare dates so I am buying the item with the longest expiration date. It just makes good sense and makes the product I am buying available for a longer use of time. It's both economical and safer. In fact, I will not buy something where the expiration date will happen too soon. If I were going to buy sour cream, for example, I won't buy a container that expires in 3 days. If that expiration date was my only choice, then I will not buy the sour cream at all. I will wait until I find it at another store or another shopping trip where the expiration date is more reasonable, which is generally good for 30 days or more. You would be surprised at how many times you will find items at a major grocery store chain that have already expired and they are still on the shelf. It seems unimaginable, but it happens. It happens more often than one would expect.