Apologies for the typos. Obviously, *I* was the one who quoted what the Danish experts were saying. I wrote to Bill Gruber, the hard working FML moderator, to correct that, but know that he might be too busy to do so. Anyway, I think people can read around typos... [Don't read too hard -- it was corrected. BIG] Also, since I didn't recall how long Kim had been around or how long she'd had ferrets (having met so many people through the years) so I checked. She joined in June of 2007 (a year ago) and in her first post it says that her first ferret was then only a year old at that point, so she has about two years total experience with ferrets at this point and only one with the FML: <http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/SCRIPTS/WA-FERRET.EXE?A2=ind0706&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R16102&I=-3&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches> That means that she might well have missed the almost daily reports I made to the FML and FHL back when there were a number of problems with bad ingredients in kibble -- though I don't offhand recall when the melamine came from China. Perhaps not having that background might make assumptions easier... Still, I guess she must be reading on only an occasional basis to miss the full range of later recalls for which I have given links including recently, and I figure that perhaps assumptions and accusations based on fragmentary reading are probably better checked than inflicted on either the target OR on the FML membership. 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 6023]