Apr 7, 2025 | Food Processing and Safety
Here’s food for thought: According to the USDA, as much as 10 percent of food produced in the United States is contaminated or consumed by stored product pests. Imagine all the failed audits, millions of dollars in lost sales, and reputation hits this leads to. It’s...
Feb 10, 2025 | Food Processing and Safety, Fumigation, Integrated Pest Management
Most people probably think of pest management or fumigation services as just getting rid of insects or rodents. It’s necessary, I guess, but not essential. Right? That’s where you would be wrong. Food processing plants, food distribution centers, and warehouses...
Apr 20, 2023 | Food Processing and Safety, Integrated Pest Management
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...
Mar 6, 2023 | Food Processing and Safety, Integrated Pest Management
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...
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...
Feb 17, 2021 | Bird Control, Flying Insects Resources, Food Processing and Safety, Integrated Pest Management, Sanitation
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...
