Some people feed these to ferrets. Among the assortment of diseases that ferrets can get from raw foods or the smaller grouping from foods in general, salmonella is one of the ones for which ferrets have pretty good resistance. That does not mean that some ferrets do not get it, and it does not even mean that a bad bout of salmonella can not do truly serious health damage to a ferret, though, just that the chances are reduced. http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/typhimurium-rodents-05-14/index.html [Posted in FML 8111]