Elders las ik dit als antwoord op iemand die vlees 8 uur buiten de koelkast liet staan (bij mij was het aanvankelijk nog ingevroren):
Timothy Sly
, Epidemiologist, consultant/lecturer/investigator, food-borne diseases.
Answered 1 year ago · Author has 7K answers and 22.7M answer views
Here we go again. Your meat is perfectly fine, provided you are going to cook it.
After discovering that your meat package was left out, open it, look at it, smell it, feel the surface. If it’s already greenish, with a very sour foul odour, and a slimy surface, the choice it up to you: You may not want to cook it and for peace of mind you may want to discard it (but it probably wouldn’t hurt you in any case!).
Otherwise, the meat is perfectly fine. There is NO bacterial species that will (A) survive the cooking process and (B) cause any food illness, sickness, upset stomach. None.
Now as I write this some misinformed people are reaching for their keyboard ready to tell me about the perils of E. coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus, Botulism, toxins, the FDA 2 hr “limit”, etc. So here goes: Vegetative cells (e.g. E. coli, Salmonella, etc.) are all destroyed by proper cooking, just as you do with poultry. No toxin-producer affects raw meat in 8 hrs. The only thing that grows rapidly on raw meat is SPOILAGE organisms. They don’t cause disease, only decay, and they outgrow the pathogens.
The advice about the fabled “2 hr limit”, is designed for READY-TO-EAT-FOODS (egg salad sandwiches, sliced ham, cabbage rolls, etc., etc.,), not raw meat. Specifically, most regulations define these foods as “Food which can support the growth of pathogens or the production of their toxins”. Raw meat is NOT in this group.
And even then, it’s overkill, designed for people who cut corners anyway. The “lag time” for pathogen growth after having reached ideal growth temperature, is closer to 4–6 hrs.
I have been investigating, teaching, consulting, and writing about food borne illnesses on four continents, and never once have we encountered a case of illness due to raw meat being kept too long before proper cooking. Refrigeration only arrived less than 100 years ago….. What do you think happened to people eating meat for the tens of thousands of years before then?
https://www.quora.com/I-left-uncooke...it-safe-to-eat