Heres my two cents, Sean was having an issue with a Purina food, lost 300 rats. I get a new shipment of Purina food and in 24 hours 7 of mine die.

Now I can't afford to replace 75-100 rats right here a couple of months before I am expecting little snakes to feed. Not including the 80 a month I already feed. Plus the rats I sale.

I also can't afford to loose my snakes because I ignored something that any responsible breeder should pay attention to, and fed a poison rat to my 3000.00 female mojave.

It is also easy to say some one is over reacting when your on the other side of the story with no issues, not having to worry about how if all your breeder rats die how will you feed 20+adult ball pythons and an unknown number of hatchling at 2.50 a rat and still replace you 100 + 300 lost rats and time building you colony back.

The odds of one of the big Purina mills (which produce their main product lines) having overlooked a problem such as this is remote...however, it's not impossible.
And yet this year 600+ pets died from just such an issue. But not from 1 food brand but hundreds that had over looked just such an issue that was "remote". But we shouldn't over react right I mean it not like it has happened before....OOPPPs ..I mean you can't blame them or worry it was only hundreds of pets and hundreds of brands.

I just think that people should recognize the risk for what it is, and not over react.
Yes a risk like handing a gun to a child is a risk. Driving drunk is a risk. Swimming in shark infested waters is a risk. Risks are something that once made aware of, people tend to go out of their way to avoid. Saying I don't want to knowingly feed my rats a possibly contaminated food and letting others that might also benefit from my loss know of the risk is not over reacting its called being aware of my responsibility's as a rat breeder and doing what I can to ensure the well being of animals I have taken in to my care.