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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...
Are You Prepared for an Audit?
Food processing facilities are often subject to audits to ensure that they are following proper food safety practices. Preparation for these events is important, which is easier when the audit is scheduled ahead of time. However, they can be unannounced! However, that...
How an IFC Integrated Pest Management Program Can Help Keep Your Facility Protected and Running
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...
4 Tips for Keeping Your Facility Rodent Free
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...