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...
Jun 30, 2022 | Integrated Pest Management
With an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program, you need strategies that eliminate pests and ultimately create an environment to keep them away. Pests, and the contaminants they can transmit, create many challenges for the food industry, which is why keeping your...
Jun 29, 2022 | Fumigation, Integrated Pest Management
Fumigations are highly specialized treatments that rely on the power of gas formulations in sufficient concentrations to effectively eliminate all life stages of target pests. While fumigation may have a negative connotation for some, many know that they can be very...
Jan 21, 2022 | Integrated Pest Management
A proactive Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program can benefit all food facilities. It’s all about integrating strategies that eliminate pests and ultimately create an environment to keep them away. Pests and the contaminants they transmit creates many challenges...
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...