Facility Pest Management
We offer a comprehensive list of products and services so there is no need to look beyond IFC. Clients trust us to handle all of their pest management needs, keeping them in full compliance so they can focus on other priorities while feeling confident that their brands are protected under IFC’s care.
Many challenges face the food industry.
Pests, and the contaminants they transmit, pose a threat to every food operation. Keeping your plant and products free of pests and contaminants is critical to the success of your organization. To prevent these adversities from becoming costly problems and to meet or exceed the requirements of internal and external pest management audits, it is extremely important that you develop a strong partnership with a pest management firm which understands your needs and has extensive experience in food industry pest management and sanitation.
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ADVANCED FOGGING SERVICES
Mechanical foggers and aerosol formulations create an assortment of different particle sizes. To increase the effectiveness of the fogging, these particles should be blown or released as close to the ceiling of the structure being fogged as possible.
AUDIT SUPPORT
The quality of the program affects the results of audits. Whether your facility faces a corporate inspection, customer audits or the scrutinizing requirements of the many food safety initiatives, IFC’s Integrated Pest Management programs ensure top scores.
BIRD CONTROL SERVICES
IFC has a professional staff capable of assessing a pest bird situation and implementing the most appropriate deterrent measures for large and small projects.
FREEDOM PLUS ILT PROGRAM
EXCLUSION SOLUTIONS
FUMIGATION
Our fumigation teams are certified and comprehensively trained in safety and current techniques for fumigating all types of containers, ships, barges and structures containing food and non-food products.
ANTIMICROBIAL DECONTAMINATION
Food safety is a growing concern in food production facilities. Product recalls are increasing every year and can cost millions of dollars in revenue. While many chemical options can clean and sanitize, they often do not reach the entire surface.
HEAT TREATMENT
FC has specifically trained heat treatment personnel to assess any facility for suitability of heat treatment and has the capability to supervise or provide a turn-key heat treatment.
INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT
Communication, prevention and safety are key elements for success in the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategy at IFC.
ORGANIC SUPPORT
IFC knows the organic food industry and has been working with organically certified facilities even before USDA first introduced the official National Organic Program in 2000.
PROTRAK™
IFC’s ProTrak™ electronic reporting system offers unparalleled service information, trending and tracking capabilities for rodent control, insect light trap (ILT) monitoring, pheromone monitoring and many other IPM functions.
RESOURCES
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...
