> AFAIK if meat products start smelling, The smell is telling you that the meat is rotting and needs to be destroyed. But meat that is fresh and has no bad odo

> AFAIK if meat products start smelling, The smell is telling you that the meat is rotting and needs to be destroyed. But meat that is fresh and has no bad odour can be contaminated. You cannot use smell to tell if meat is contaminated or not. We don't eat raw chicken, even if it's very fresh, because of the risk of food poisoning from things like campylobacter. You need to be careful with cooked then chilled rice because of the risk of bacillus cereus. It won't smell bad. It can be an unpleasant food poisoning.