Russians were called a dangerous way to store shish kebab.

Failure to comply with the rules of the temperature regime when storing a ready-made barbecue can harm your health. Elena Specenko, director of the Roskachestvo Center for Food Safety Competencies, told about this on Wednesday, May 6. The expert named the most frequent violations during the storage of meat and ready meals in hot weather.

According to the expert, the issue of safe storage of meat becomes especially relevant when the air temperature at a picnic exceeds +25 degrees. The main problem is the transportation and storage of the product before and after cooking.

"When transporting meat to a picnic area, the time spent outside the refrigerator should not exceed two hours. At temperatures above +25, this interval is reduced to one hour. It is advisable to cook fresh chilled meat within 10-12 hours after purchase, ideally in the first four hours, but with the condition of storage in the refrigerator before cooking," she stressed in an interview with Lenta.Ru .

Specenko added that after cooking, the barbecue also requires a temperature regime — at room temperature, the finished meat can be left for no more than two hours, and in hot weather this period is reduced to an hour.

The expert said that before sending meat to the refrigerator, it should be cooled at room temperature to avoid the development of microorganisms, RT reports.

If a change in the color of meat, the appearance of mucus on the surface, or an unpleasant odor is detected, the product should never be eaten, Specsenko warned. Heat treatment in this case will not help save the product, she concluded.

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Earlier that day, a cardiologist, deputy chief physician of the Intermedcenter clinic, Branislav Bogunovich, told Izvestia that improper storage of meat for kebabs can lead to food intoxication, and excessive alcohol consumption can lead to atrial fibrillation and hypertensive crisis.

On the eve of May 5, Zarema Ten, a therapist at the Vidnov hospital, said that an unsuccessfully chosen marinade can increase the load on the body, so it is better to abandon some popular ingredients. 360.ru . She noted that mayonnaise and vinegar for marinating kebabs can harm health, and carbonated water with onions or kefir with herbs would be a better alternative, the Moscow City News agency reports.