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Originally Posted by Nugget
I'd be very surprised if chilled food was still edible and safe after an additional week - as homealone said, the reason that chilled foods have use by dates on them is because of the microbiological risk. The temperatures that the average home fridge operate at aren't enough to completely stop microbiological growth so every time you eat a product like that, you're actually putting your health at risk...
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As I understand it the guidelines with respect to chilled foods are there to minimise a very small risk. They don't mean that every chilled meal is necessarily inedible or unsafe after a week. Of course there'd be more risk from chilled precooked foods which are not going to be cooked. As for risk, it's all proportionate and I dare say far more people get seriously ill or die as a result of not washing their hands properly than do from eating chilled food which is out of date.