Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a comprehensive and proactive approach to pest management, utilizing strategies to prevent and reduce pest pressures. In your potato facility, pests such as insects, rodents, and birds can cause considerable damage to your potato...
Food safety is of the utmost importance in the food processing industry, and passing your audit is essential to ensuring the safety of the food supply. Pest infestations can be detrimental to food, causing contamination, spoilage, and in severe cases, even illness. It...
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...
1. GET YOUR MASTER SANITATION SCHEDULE UPDATED AND FUNCTIONAL Master Sanitation Schedules are fundamental components of sanitation programs. From a pest management perspective Master Sanitation Schedules eliminate pest food and harborage, and cleaning schedules...
No matter what kind of food processing or manufacturing your company does, it’s likely that your facility produces fragrant waste. Most often these byproducts are stored in broad areas which, if left unchecked, can serve as heavy attractants to all kinds of pests...
Food processing pest control should always be approached first with recognition of key pests and consideration of aspects of their biology where management options can be brought to bear. Rodents are recognized as a key threat for every kind of facility. It is not...
