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I ate a few bites of 12 day expired potato egg salad. what will happen?

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Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Probably nothing: Nothing at all is likely to happen. If someone who was ill contaminated teh salad, then it's possible after 12 days that it woudl give you either gastroenteritis or food poisoning., If it was processed and prepared, and simply old, the risk is small.

Answered 7/17/2015

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