I mean, it makes total sense that they would be. I just find it interesting anyway. Official government guidelines would have you believe that it's risky to eat cooked chicken or potatoes that's been out of the fridge for more than like 4 hours, but when I was growing up I used to eat all kinds of stuff that had been cooked the previous evening and then left out on the counter all night and I never had any issues.
Not recommending that anyone follow my example, it's just one of those interesting things. People at the government have to somehow decide where to draw the line, like should it be between the point at which like 0.001 of people would get sick and the point at which like 0.002 of people would get sick, or should it be somewhere else?
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There was an orange sight post about this a few years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26635856
They're conservative because they're setting guidelines for hundreds of millions of people. Eating pizza left out overnight is unlikely to make you sick. However if 300 million people eat pizza left out overnight at least one of them is probably gonna die from super AIDS because of it or something.
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it's because big food owns the government and wants you to buy more food
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its an odds game and the odds go up signifocantly the longer the food is left out. Its all fun and games until you get food poisoning and have diarreah for three days or have your limbs amputated
https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/student-had-legs-fingers-amputated-after-eating-leftover-chinese/
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i bet
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harsh but true
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