I have read several stories of people loosing their snakes to a bad frozen feeder. One time the snake ate a bad frozen food and died because of that. This is actually one of the reasons why i feed only live. Sick animals get slaughtered and sold as food to your snake. I know that this is the exception, but your snake has to eat a bad frozen only once and that might be enough to kill it. I am not advocating here for live feeding, i'm just mentioning something that rarely get mentioned