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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It definitely violates food safety rules, so I don’t risk it. All the people who say they’ve never had a problem don’t really know if those times they have thrown up or had diarrhea that they blamed on a stomach bug were actually from like warm Mac and cheese.[/quote]

Or maybe, just maybe it was a virus that had nothing to do with food safety.

Frankly, millions or billions of people use thermoses for hot and cold lunches every day and they’re not getting sick. It’s perfectly safe it’s nothing to worry about you. Just need to preheat or pre-cool your thermos and it’ll be hot by the time you get to lunch. [/quote]

USDA says hot food in an insulated container is fine. Thermos advertises that hot food stays hot for 8 hours in the kids' food jar version. If it was dangerous for people to use Thermoses for what they are designed for and advertised to do (i.e., keeping food warm for a few hours) then Thermos would have been sued into oblivion by now.

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2023/07/24/make-food-safety-honor-roll-school-year

https://thermos.com/collections/food-jars/products/12oz-icon-kids-food-jar[/quote]

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