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[quote=Anonymous]There is a really good answer in this post (the long one at the top from poster Aaronut posted March 20, 2011):  [url]http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/12992/why-is-it-dangerous-to-eat-meat-which-has-been-left-out-and-then-cooked[/url]

It explains that letting food sit out can allow various contagions to grow on it.  Even killing the contagions is not enough as the contagions are often not what causes food poisoning.  For example, E Coli actually lives in small quantities in human bowels.  However, when you increase the population, they generate more protein toxins (which is a waste product of the bacteria) and it's the protein toxins that are toxic and cause food poisoning.  When you leave food out, the bacteria collect, multiply and produce waste product.  Even if you heat the food up high enough to kill the bacteria, they have already generated the protein toxins which will not degrade from the heat and you ingest that you you still get sick from food poisoning.

If you can't get someone to stop by the house and turn on the crock pot within about 3-4 hours, then you should toss the uncooked food.  Sorry.[/quote]

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