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Right, but "room temperature" is pretty universal everywhere because we are going with the "average human" rather than "outliers exist and maybe feel differentl

• esperent 15d ago
  No it's not. Room temperature in tropical countries is often 26-30C. I work in the food industry and this whole "room temperature" thing is a major bugbear for me actually because when so much food dates markings are designed around a room temperature of ~22C, it's a big health and safety issue for people (and shops, warehouses, restaurants) who don't know that and happily store the goods up to the date marking at 30C. Deciding that room temperature ~=22C and basing worldwide food safety on that is absolutely Western centric. Obviously people here are not stupid and don't store meat etc. past when it's gone bad. But I've often bought e.g. oils from suppliers and it's clear that it's on the edge of rancidity even though it's got a year+ to go on the date because it's been stored at "room temperature".
• hulitu 12d ago
  > Right, but "room temperature" is pretty universal everywhere Yes. And it is between 16 °C and 30 °C. (depending if the test room has AC or not). But as you say: it is pretty universal everywhere.