Food & Beverage Manufacturing, Packaging, Distribution & Wholesale
Delivering effective pest control and pest management services for commercial customers across Australia for over 40 years.
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Scientific Pest Management has provided responsive and programmed pest management services across Australia for over 40 years.
We provide both audit and compliance services to food and beverage packaging and wholesaling facilities and our tailored service includes but not limited to:
- Understand the factory/warehouse, including its design and identify areas of where pests hide or can enter from
- Understand the supply chain
- Building maintenance and exclusion practices for pest management purposes
- Advice on good housekeeping and hygiene practices
- Pest management Inspections and monitoring
- Physical control methods
- Chemical control methods
- Habitat/environment management.
Each review is specific to each location as environments, building designs and etc are all unique. Your pest management strategy will evolve and change due to seasons along with different changes in the local environment.
In your business, you’ve most likely encountered pests under or in boxes, packaging and food storage containers, along with typical areas such as inside wall cavities, cracks and crevices, behind equipment and around the outside of the building.
Selling and distributing your food and/or beverages to the consumer, food standards and regulations ensure that all businesses in this field have systems and procedures in place to minimise, control or avoid all pests with regular and constant checks and etc.
Common pests faced within the Food & Beverage Packaging & Wholesale 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.
How we deal with Pests
Our staff are highly trained to carry out an audit of your premises. They treat every premises that they visit differently and tailor a programmed pest plan to suit the environmental factors, including seasons. We use technology as our helping hand to monitor and track incidents or changes to your bait stations in real-time. Your account manager and technician are then alerted in real-time in order to investigate any issues just in case any issues arise in between scheduled programmed maintenance’s. You will then be provided reports for your own purposes along with providing those reports to your customers.
Food Standards and Compliance
Whilst structuring your pest management strategy, we will also understand your micro-business needs which includes what legal, industry and business requirements that you need to achieve. For example, our practices can meet HACCP, ISO and ISO adopted standards. We can also adapt your compliance to suit supermarkets such as (not limited to) Woolworths, Coles, IGA, Aldi and Costco.
Our Quality Assurance and Formal Accreditations
Scientific Pest & Vegetation Management operates a Quality system in accordance and compliance with AS/NZS ISO 9001 with formal accreditation programmed for the near future. Left is the necessary information.
Looking for a Pest Management company that cares?
For an integrated Pest Management Program tailored to your business needs, be sure to contact us. We will be more than happy to meet with you to discuss your requirements.
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