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First my credentials - I am a National Restaurant Association Serve Safe (R) certified instructor, and am a FSMA and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) and Quality Control consultant on an international level.Now let's analyze the risk: Not all foods are potentially hazardous. We leave butter, oil, fruit, vegetables, dry foods, canned foods, cooked bacon, etc at room temperature. There are milks that are shelf stable, hams that don't need to be refrigerated, all because either the pH/water activity isn't suitable for bacterial growth. So the fact of being at room temperature isn't sufficient to determine the risk.Turkey is poultry and is a pre-cooked item so is potentially hazardous due to salmonella (poultry) and Listeria (cooked Meats). Presuming the meatballs were heated last night to at least 165 degrees for at least 5 seconds at or above that temperature, the bacteria that would have existed on the meatballs or sauce would have been killed. That is IF it reached that temperature to the center of the meatball (salmonella is ON THE SURFACE of raw turkey, but becomes mixed to the core when ground).If you are unsure if it reached that temp, the risk is that there could be contamination, and, at between 43 degrees and 140 degrees F, bacteria grows (temperature danger zone). The longer it is in that zone, the greater the growth. If you killed 98% of the bacteria last night, and it sat out for 8 hours in the danger zone, then that 2% would definitely grow.If you bought the meatballs pre-cooked from the grocer, then it is a good presumption that they killed all bacteria in the plant before freezing. Unless anyone in your house handled the meatballs without washing hands, introducing cross-contamination, there is very little risk that the meatballs are unsafe to eat.But, unless they're so amazing and you can't bear the thought of tossing them, I'd dump them. But if you choose not to, the chances are very slim they'll make you sick.

I wasn't on site but knew of a rule that screwed a huge number of manages at a huge construction site for an LNG plant.They had a rule that to E a workshop you needed to READ and sign onto a JHA (job hazard analysis). Pretty much a description of the work in the workshop the dangers and how to stay safe.The guy who had to write it each day argued it was never read and was a waste of time. The powers that be told him it was important and it was being read.So after being told in no uncertain terms he had to do it he wrote one up the next day. At the start of the next day he asked all the management who had signed on the document in front of the daily prestart briefing to describe what the workshop JHA was about. He got a brief outline. Then he held up the JHA with 300+ signatures. It detailed baking a chocolate cake and icing itThat was the last JHA for the workshop.

If it’s today, I’ll have a strong cup of tea and a sweet biscuit. If it’s tomorrow, it will be the excitement of driving to work, and doing some Functional Hazard Analysis.However, I can possibly share a happy birthday song for him.