Food Manufacturing and Processors

Common pests faced within the Food Manufacturing and Processors Industry

Common pests faced by the food and beverage industry are as follows:

Ants

Even though ants do not eat a lot of food, it doesn’t take long for ants to infiltrate your inventory and product. Ants can contaminate large quantities of your inventory and product, therefore requiring you to discard them due to health purposes.

Beetles & Weevils

Beetles and weevils generally infest supply chains that contain cereals and grains, flour, seeds, buts, dried fruit, chocolate, spices and processed foods.

Birds

Birds generally cause physical damage on roofs and can also lay their nest in those areas but without being diligent, birds may appear and live inside the building. Their droppings and feathers may contaminate surfaces, machinery and food inventory and there is also the risk of spreading viruses, bacteria and etc.

Cockroaches

Cockroach can cause hygiene and health issues by carrying disease-causing bacteria and introduce this to your food supply. Good sanitary and hygiene practices are required to help prevent infestations and issues. Cockroaches may enter from and hide in areas through spaces, pipe, windows and junction boxes to name a few.

Drain Flies

A different specie to the common fly, there are a few flies that breed and thrive inside your drains.

Flies

Flies are one of the most common carriers of diseases in Australia. Also, flies are a common pest to the food industries.

Fuit Flies

You generally find fruit flies when fruit inventory supplies are either ripe, rotting or decaying. They may also exist during the fermentation periods in the liquor industries such as wine, beer and other alcohol processes.

Mites

Mites can generally infest products such as cereals, cheese, nuts, eggs, fruit and flour.

Moths

There are different types of moths but depending on each breed, moths can generally infest ingredients and food products that contain nuts, dried fruits, flour, cerial, oil seeds, cocoa beans and grain.

Rats & Mice

Rats and mice can cause hygiene and health issues and generally breed and infest areas that are close to food. With the right conditions and climate, their population can explode and given that food manufacturers and processes have large amounts of food supply, they can infiltrate your food supply network.

Rodents can enter through gaps in roofs, walls and under doors. They can also enter on pallets if your supplier has a pest problem.

Rodents can also cause inventory and product and packaging damage along with equipment and machinery damage and structural damage to your premises or even tarnish your brand name.