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Help! Easter eggs left out at room temperature

jen223 | Mar 28, 201611:34 AM     37

I boiled eggs yesterday morning. My daughter dyed them, and then I didn't put them in the refrigerator until yesterday evening. Today I made delicious egg salad and ate it for lunch.

Of course it wasn't until afterwards that I decided to look online to confirm it's OK to consume these eggs left at room temp... ANNNDD the internet disagrees. I grew up with my parents doing this all the time to no ill effects so thought nothing of it, especially since the eggs were in their shells. But my mom also always just cut around the mold of food and fed whatever it was to us.

To complicate things, I'm pregnant (although at the very, very end of pregnancy). Question is: how does salmonella work? Is it binary for me at this point? Meaning I ate the egg salad. If I'm OK, can I eat the rest of it now that it's properly refrigerated?

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