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3 Tools to Help Effectively Maintain Your IPM Pest Control Program
Maintaining a pest-free environment is of utmost importance in food processing facilities to ensure an effective food safety program. As a food safety manager, you play a critical role in addressing pest challenges effectively, and having the right tools at your...
3 Reasons Fumigation Services Benefits Your Food Processing Facility
Your food processing facility is highly regulated and must adhere to strict guidelines to maintain required levels of food safety and to stay audit ready. Pests such as insects and rodents can threaten your food safety program through potential contamination and loss...
The IPM Pest Control Solution to Your Potato Facility’s Pest Problem
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...
Keeping Birds Away from Your Food Processing Plant
Bird Management for Food Processing Facilities Their adaptability, vision, and flight mobility make birds one of the most difficult pest to confront in the food industry. Birds present risks to your business, including your staff, property, products, and ultimately...
How IPM Pest Control Supports Your Cannabis Facility
IPM Pest Control for Cannabis Facilities Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a proactive approach to pest control that emphasizes prevention and monitoring to manage pest risk. IPM pest control programs can be particularly beneficial in a cannabis facility, where...
Audit Check: Is Your Food Facility Ready to Pass?
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...
Your Guide to Shipping Pest-Free
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...
Sanitation and Maintenance Tips to Help Propel Your IPM Pest Control Program
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...
Fumigations Aren’t as Costly as They May Seem
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...