Check your emergency stockpiles as you set your clocks, APHA advises.

APHA is encouraging the public to remember to make sure that their emergency preparedness stockpiles are up to date when they change their clocks this month.

In February, APHA launched the Get Ready: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks campaign. The effort is designed to remind Americans to make sure that their emergency preparedness stockpiles have adequate food, water and supplies and ensure that nothing is missing or has expired. The biannual campaign is also designed to encourage Americans who don't have an emergency stockpile to create one.

The next clock change for daylight-saving time occurs on March 9, but the campaign will also be used in the fall, when Americans change their clocks once again. APHA is also reminding people that they should check their smoke alarm batteries when changing their clocks.

Get Ready: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks is part of APHA's overall Get Ready campaign, which is working to help Americans prepare themselves, their families and communities for pandemic flu and other emerging infectious diseases.

For a list of what should be in an emergency stockpile, information on rotating stored food and water, stockpiling recipes and other materials, visit www.getreadyforflu.org/clocksstocks.

For more informationa on the Get Ready campaign, visit www.getreadyforflu.org.