Always keep raw meat at the bottom of your fridge and covered. This ensures that should the meat leak, it doesn't leak over other foods.
Nothing major. The meat can keep cooking if it is hot enough, or it can warm the contents of the fridge. Not putting hot meat into a fridge is a holdover from true ice boxes, where the hot meat could melt the ice.
The dates that the company that cut the meat puts on the packages. This is to make sure they are sold roughly a week to two weeks before they spoil. This is so you as a consumer can feel safe buying the meat and putting it in your fridge for awhile.
No, just put it in the freezer
Cooked meat should be stored in the upper part of the fridge where it is colder.
Unless where it was left out of the fridge was as cold as the refrigerator, I would not recommend using that meat.
If you want it to be moist inside you do - browning sears the outside and keeps the flavor and juice inside of the meat.
yes
eggs, milk, meat, produce, bread
Yes, from what I have heard and read. Moving hot food to a cold refrigerator can cause bacteria to form and grow rapidly. The food should be cooled to room temperature before refrigerating.
yes up to five years in the fridge before freezing ;)
Fresh poultry meat is when the birds are killed and sold in frontof you, They are not kept in the fridge,
About a week