People do not like to have their names incorrectly and publicly attached to products or items even when those items do not have the potential to cause harm. When the products DO have that potential then having one's name incorrectly, or falsely, or even just mistakenly attached to that item can damage a reputation and even damage a career if people who should know enough to check fail to check the attribution with the person named. This means two things: while not all individuals may be harmed by a product the risk level for some is high enough to cause a need for real caution, and in the case of ingested Aloe vera directly from the plant even the ASPCA's Animal Poison Control experts point out that it has caused poisonings in members of Carnivora for the same reasons that lilies, a related plant, can because of the nature of the saponins in those plants. Check that site or past posts since the URL has been given often recently and can be easily found online. It also means that incorrectly attaching a person's name to a product can happen for a variety of reasons with some as simple as a mistake, but if using that person's name it pays to first beforehand check directly with the one you are naming to see if your recollection is correct because that is how it becomes possible to avoid even accidentally injuring a good person who does a lot to help ferrets. Doing so also means that others don't have to ask their friends who are named to help protect those friends. Additionally, it means that making that same mistake twice which could hurt the professional reputation of a very good person who helps ferrets could have been avoided. 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/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) On change for its own sake: "You can go really fast if you just jump off the cliff." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 7253]