Jan 23, 2023 | Food Processing and Safety, Integrated Pest Management, Sanitation
Those handling the safe and pest-free transportation of food products are faced with unique challenges. Food safety concerns for food processors include microbial, physical/foreign material and chemical contaminations. FDA’s transportation rules state that all parties...
Dec 22, 2021 | Integrated Pest Management, Rodent Control
Rodents are recognized as a significant threat to food processing and distribution facilities of all types. It is common to trap an occasional mouse or have feeding in exterior bait stations, but rodent infestations cannot be tolerated in or around good and...
Sep 8, 2021 | Heat Treatment, Integrated Pest Management
Heat treatments have been around and used since the early 1900’s. It is the process of gradually heating a structure or equipment to temperatures high enough to kill all life stages of insect pests, particularly stored product pests in the food industry. Heat...
Jul 28, 2021 | Fumigation
Have you ever wondered why or when fumigation could support your operations? While fumigation has been seen as a last resort, it shouldn’t be, considering fumigation quickly eliminates pests for a clean start. Our Senior Technical Specialist, Jerry Heath, sat down...
