Should cooked meat be above raw meat?

The rule is that the meat that needs to be cooked to a higher temperature should be on the bottom. If chicken were stored above beef and the chicken leaked onto the beef, the beef might not be cooked to temperatures high enough to kill bacteria normally found in chicken.

Generally, though, you don't want to store seafood where it can leak onto other meat. After all, you don't want your steaks to smell or taste of fish!