Tuna Questions.....curious....

[emptywallet]

Ok, damn these university foods and there prices. Screw it, I don't need to be eating that shit anyway. Regardless, I'm going to start taking meals and eating while I'm walking. So, for lunch, it will partly consist of a can of tuna fish. I'm not planning on taking a can opener with me to open up the can, I just thought I'd make my lunch the night before, and put it in a tupaware (sp) container and eat it as I was walking. My question though, does tuna go bad after its opened and sitting? I mean, this container is going to be in my backpack and I'm going to be lugging it around. My first class is from 9:30 to 10:50, so it would be sitting basically from around 8:30 to 11:00ish or so. I don't see anything on the label that says refridgerate after opening like you do on most things, and the last thing I need is damn food poisoning (sp). Any ideas? My logic goes like this, I'm taking it out of one air tight container, and putting it in another, so it should be ok? Anyone?

 

[fl8meplz]

Get one of those blue ice pack things to put in your lunch. You very well could get sick even though from one sterile container - tuna can - to the tuperware - questionable sterility. The blue ice pack thing will keep it cold enough to ward off any of those weird ass chinese or indian eboli plague microbes. Aunt Bee never had to worry about this kind of shit fixin' Opey's lunch.

 

[jeditonytao]

If you keep it cool, you should be ok.

 

[TinyTim]

4 hours

The rule of thumb is that food is safe if it is consumed within four hours of being in the temperature danger zone.... so if you eat it withing four hours of bringing it above 40 degree's you are good to go.

And this is a government regulation so probably fairly conservative.