Recall of over a million pounds for E. coli, a bacterium which has been documented to be able to cause illness or death in domestic ferrets and BFFs: <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/03/AR2007110300891.html> <http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071104/us_nm/cargill_beef_recall_dc_5> Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 5781]