Excerpt from Consumer Practices in the Handling and Storing of Commercially Frozen Foods, Two Cities, Two Seasons On y a negligible percentage of households reported that frozen - food packages were wrapped in protective materials to prevent warming or partial thawing during transit from the retail market to the home. The time of exposure to room or outdoor temperatures between the retail display case and the home storage unit, however, was relatively short: In Baltimore, a median of 30 minutes at both seasons in Indianapolis, about 21 minutes in the summer survey and 36 minutes in the winter survey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.