Many thanks to Lisa who passed on to me a news story on the most recently found pelleted food with melamine used to feed animals who themselves or whose milk was destined for feeding others (fish, shrimp, goats, cattle, sheep). It does not sound like the melamine content in those came from China like these connected Ohio based U.S. branches of a Canadian company were adding it themselves. You can find the piece at the International Herald Tribune, titled Poison used in China is found in U.S.-made animal feed, by Andrew Martin, Thursday, May 31, 2007 Furthermore, according to the FDA recall site: The Tembec and Uniscope products also reportedly contain a urea formaldehyde resin-type ingredient, a raw ingredient used to make the binding agent in these products. FDA is investigating this use of the urea formaldehyde resin-type ingredient in the Tembec and Uniscope products, and will take appropriate regulatory action if warranted. Despite all the news stories those companies did not follow-up themselves. Instead a distributor decided to have food tested to know what the distribution company was selling. 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 5629]