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Peter A

In article >, says...
> levelwave wrote:
> >
> > I cooked up a big pot of tomato sauce last night for my dinner
> > tonight... well, I woke up this morning and realized I had left it on
> > the stove all night (covered - off the heat). It stayed out about 8
> > hours and the pot was room temp by the time I woke up this morning...
> > I placed the pot back in the fridge before heading off to work. If I
> > boil it when I get home will it still be ok to eat?
>
> If it had no meat in it, no problem.
>
> If it had meat in it, then you need to work out
> the value equation:
>
> value of sauce > probability of killing you x value of your life
>
> Let's say the sauce is worth $10, the probability of it
> killing you is 1%, and the value of your life is $100,000.
>
> $10 > 0.01 x $100,000
> $10 > $1000
>
> Whoa! That's not right! It's off by a
> a factor of 100. Even if we reduce the risk
> to 0.1% and devalue your life to $20,000,
> eating the sauce does not satisfy the value
> equation.
>

Complete claptrap. What part of "sterile" do you not understand?

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Peter Aitken