On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:27:18 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2016-10-16 4:22 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 20:37:30 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>>> The FDA rule is 4 hours, but I've often gone 6+ hours with no problems.
>>
>> I've gone much, much longer than that. But... you need rules to save
>> stupid people from themselves, I guess.
>
>I don't wear a tinfoil hat. I assume that they guidelines are to protect
>consumers from commercial operations. I am very much in favour or public
>health rules. I once caught a bad case of food poisoning that had be
>vomitting almost non stop for 5 hours and then sleeping for a day and a
>half. Throughout my I have had my share of illnesses and perhaps more
>than my share of injuries. That food poisoning incident is right at the
>top of the list of things I do not want to ever go through again.

I'd expect higher standards from a commercial operation too, I was
just talking about being at home with something in that situation.
I've been really lucky, no food poisoning that I can recall. Had
giardia once though... now that was no fun at all.