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"Got eggs? If you celebrate Easter and have kids, chances are pretty good you have more eggs than usual hanging about in your refrigerator right now.  This weekend, millions of parents will settle in with their kids to dye and decorate eggs for the Easter holiday. In 2006, Americans purchased nearly 99 million dozen eggs during Easter week. That&amp;#039;s nearly 1.2 billion individual eggs, nearly 25 percent more than we would typically buy any other time of year. That&amp;#039;s a lot of egg salad. So much so, in fact, the folks at the American Egg Board refer to the week following Easter as &amp;quot;egg salad week&amp;quot;.   Despite the fairly routine activity of boiling and decorating eggs, there are a few safety issues to keep tabs on. Between boiling, decorating, and hiding Nature&amp;#039;s little packaging wonders, there are plenty of opportunities for things \u2013 and your holiday, as result \u2013 to go wrong. Want to avoid getting sick from eating bad eggs? Read on. As with nearly any food, being left out at room temperature for long periods of time isn&amp;#039;t exactly beneficial to either the egg or you. In fact, eggs ought not to be left out at room temperature for more than two hours, according to Elisa Maloberti, product marketing director for the American Egg Board. That, unfortunately, includes the decorating time and the time they might spend in seclusion, hidden around the house before your kids begin looking for them.  Is your region of the country anticipating a warm Easter Sunday? Say, more than 80 degrees? Then you need to cut that total time down to a paltry 30 minutes.  &amp;quot;But, but,&amp;quot; I hear you stammering, &amp;quot;the eggs are cooked. What&amp;#039;s the problem?&amp;quot; OK, the news really isn&amp;#039;t getting any better, here. Cooked eggs are even more susceptible to spoilage than they are raw. In fact, the Egg Board doesn&amp;#039;t recommend holding boiled eggs longer than one week. See, that&amp;#039;s where &amp;quot;egg salad week&amp;quot; comes in.  It&amp;#039;s not really all that grim. Just remember: don&amp;#039;t leave the eggs out for more than two hours \u2013 30 minutes if the weather is hot \u2013 consume the boiled eggs relatively soon, and have fun. It&amp;#039;s Easter.  For more about Easter egg safety, as well as tips for creating safe dyes and boiling the perfect egg, check out Food Safety News (Disclaimer: I wrote the piece I&amp;#039;m sending you to, but that&amp;#039;s how I know it&amp;#039;s good). "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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