Hey Gang...Sorry I have been really busy with lots of travel so I haven't been able to post as much or as quickly as I normally could.

After catching up on this thread I am not sure why anyone would challenge or worry about some people being overly cautious...there is nothing wrong with that especially since there are so many unknowns. Remember it was all these "big" producers who claimed their pet foods were safe last year and they weren't involved to only later come back and try to play it off that they had tainted food. I never said PMI foods were bad, what I said was that my supplier was owned by PMI (what I was told on the phone - though maybe "owned" isn't a 100% accurate description of the relationship does it really matter?)

I purchase my food from Martin's Feed Mills a small mill owned/invested in/somehow related to/subsidiary of/ known by/whatever they want to call it PMI. When we first started to consider the fact that it could be the food we contacted PMI who has some connection to all or part of the grain/process that is used in the food I was buying (per the mill). PMI did the testing and made the determination of what was wrong. The food is based on Labdiets 5013 blend.

After I posted (originally never saying where my feed came from) Ed posted saying he was seeing unexplained deaths. RED FLAGS shoot up...he too is feeding a diet based on the same ingredients from potentially the same source. My posted recommendation - " stop feeding for a while or at least monitor your colony closely till we know more". In NO way did anyone post that PMI was to blame or that all their foods were bad...but why not be safe rather than sorry. Before Ed posted that his deaths stopped we didn't know if we had a wide spread food issue or not. That was the point of this thread just an FYI...once others started to notice issues and post - assumptions were made (none of which are bad - this is why we start threads so others know or at least are aware of ANY potential issues - even if none come out).

I am happy that Ed's wasn't a food issue but mine was and I shared that experience so others would know. I am sorry that some got hung up on who was to blame or making sure we didn't blame a company with a poor track record wrongly...but again I ask does it really matter if for a short time people pay more attention and look for any issues? Where is the harm in being vigilant toward our furry friends?