Re. seeds going bad at room temperature: If the seeds have been washed before drying at room temperature, you've got a long time before they would "go bad". Think about it: nature designed these seeds to stay "good" until next spring, when they would grow into new little punkin plants. It's the roasted seeds that I would worry about going rancid at room temp- you've now deactivated all those living enzymes that keep the "live" (unroasted) seed fresh.

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