Cheese Balls

How long can these things sit out at room temperature before you have to start worrying?

For that matter what about summer sausage?

After buying 2 cheese balls and a stick of summer sausage for our company potluck they sat in my car until nearly frozen. I then took them out of the car and left them on the kitchen counter late last night by mistake. They sat out about 7 hours thawing a good part of that time.

So am I going to kill all of my co-workers? If so I can always blame the guy that brought the shrimp.

Eh, read this and you make the call.

Thanks, better safe than sorry I guess.