From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-12-03 17:03:44 UTC
Subject: RE: Melatonin safety
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5148930.1102093424793.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> I wonder if the tablets were really something else. I remember that about 15
> years ago the supplement L-Trytophan was found to be contaminated and four
My inclination is to think that if the tablets were involved at all (Ferrets ARE good at getting into all sorts of things without their people being aware and we all know that and understand it.) that there was tampering. The reason is that I have found no other reports of any humans or animals becoming ill. With a substitution or a manufacturing error a person would expect usually to encounter a bad batch, so there would be other reports. Also, the most recent melatonin recall I could find was from 1996 and that was not due any hazard like a manufacturing error or substitution, but just due to there being less melatonin than advertised in that manufacturer's product.
This one report stands alone.