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I have yet to find clear guidance on how to handle perishable food that belongs in my refrigerator or freezer and cannot be left out on its own for a day or two if I lack the cleaning products recommended in the article. Does anyone have any reference material on whether "isolating" such things in my fridge for a period of time might be effective?

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The simplest solution is to not buy it, and only buy non-perishable food instead and multivitamin pills if necessary.

When I lived in a country without clean water, lettuce, etc was washed in diluted bleach.

You then put the lettuce in a spinner to get most of it off. Then you wait a while for most of the rest to evaporate.

We have clean water so I expect we can use clean water to rinse the bleach off.

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