Quote Originally Posted by Stefan-A View Post
On the other hand, it shouldn't present any sort of problem until you expose them to parasites and pathogens. Or carriers.
That's exactly the point Stefan, without microscopic inspection of every food item, how could we know what exactly is in the food we feed them.

Example, I have heard of more than one incidence of pre-packaged frozen pinky mice that "smelled funny" indicating that at least once the package had thawed out and was re-frozen.

Scott Felzer told me he had snakes die from eating earthworms! I asked if they were red wigglers, and he said absolutely not.

Some owners have lost snakes from feeding toads, yet in the wild Garters dine on toads all the time.

That same batch of "tainted" fish that wiped out 3 of my most expensive morphs was consumed by all the WC snakes with no ill effects.

Freezing food is no guarantee that parasites or bacteria will be dead, most just "hibernate" until better conditions are presented.(like a nice warm snake under a basking lamp)

I know that one first hand from eating ice once when I was younger