Quick Straw Poll - do you all keep raw meat on a separate, lower, shelf than cooked meat in your fridge?

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Dh thinks I'm being petty and gets annoyed when I ask him to put cooked meats on the cooked meats/cheese shelf in the fridge (eye level), and raw meat on the bottom shelf. It was something I learned in food hygiene years ago.

So, do you all keep your cooked and raw meat separate? Yes or no...

Yes, basic hygiene.

Yes.

Yes

No. I have never even heard of this, I just put everything where it will fit as our fridge is tiny.

No, but anything like that goes in a sealed Tupperware so it cant leak. My fridge is full of little boxes.

Yes.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes. And if it's in a non leak proof package I pop it in a Tupperware so no meat juices can escape and leak through to the salad drawers.

Yes.

Yes - there's a dedicated drawer at the bottom of my fridge for raw meats. Cooked meats go in the next drawer up and veg/salad in the top drawer. Above that are shelves for miscellaneous stuff.
It works well.

Yes. Bottom shelf.

Not if it's in a sealed airtight supermarket package, but yes otherwise.

Yes.

Yes

Yes and in Tupperware so it can't leak into the fridge.

Yes.

Yes. Surprised by anyone who doesn't!

Yes. And if by chance I don't DH reminds me.

Yes

Yes although I never knew why - I just knew that was the way it should be. Glad to see I was right.

Yes.

I was just thinking about this today as I rearranged raw meat that had been shoved on top of cheese and butter. I'm even more cautious about it since I read something about how much bacteria there is on the outside of raw chicken packaging.

Always.

Of course.
As others have said, basic food hygiene