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...
Sep 8, 2021 | Heat Treatment, Integrated Pest Management
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...
Feb 12, 2021 | Audit, Flying Pests, Food Processing and Safety, Integrated Pest Management, Rodent Control
Your food processing facility relies on safe products, a clean reputation and high audit scores to be successful. But pests can threaten everything your facility has, including its bottom line. Hot spots – areas conducive to pest activity – are everywhere, and...
Feb 7, 2021 | Audit, Integrated Pest Management
Auditors and pests look for the same things: weak links in your facility’s sanitation program. Consistency is the key to keeping pests out and auditors happy. That’s why you can’t start preparing for an audit at the last minute; the time to start is now. After all,...
