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FACILITY PEST MANAGEMENT ARTICLES
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...
Organic Facilities and Approved Pesticide Use
Organic foods continue to gain in popularity; this is why many food companies have found opportunities to develop or promote products that they can market as organic. Many believe that organic products are produced in facilities that are pesticide free, but as organic...
What You Need to Know About Heat Treatments
Heat treatments have been around and used since the early 1900’s. It is the process of gradually heating a structure or equipment to temperatures high enough to kill all life stages of insect pests, particularly stored product pests in the food industry. Heat...
5 Fumigation Questions with IFC’s Senior Technical Specialist – Jerry Heath, BCE
Have you ever wondered why or when fumigation could support your operations? While fumigation has been seen as a last resort, it shouldn’t be, considering fumigation quickly eliminates pests for a clean start. Our Senior Technical Specialist, Jerry Heath, sat down...
Fogging vs Fumigation
Fogging vs Fumigation Fumigation and fogging are often seen as the same type of pest service. While they’re similar in nature, they have key differences that will affect whether a pest expert like IFC would recommend them for your facility. Both involve the use of an...
Top 6 Sanitation Solutions
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...
Tips for Audit Preparedness
There was a time when sanitation managers devoted significant time and effort several weeks in advance to prepare for scheduled audits. Preparation for these important events will continue, but demands will increasingly be for 24/7 readiness for unannounced audits –...