The Role of Pest Control in Ensuring Food Safety
The Role of Pest Control in Ensuring Food Safety Food safety is the science/discipline that pertains to handling and preparing food in ways to protect consumers from becoming sick through ingestion of microorganisms found in food, thus minimizing illness risk. Food safety practices like pest control can help ensure contaminated products do not reach consumers and become sources of illness outbreak. Food industry segments all have different requirements when it comes to pests, but all are vulnerable to various insects that could contaminate products during production, storage and transportation. They must follow stringent standards and rules to maintain product integrity. Production facilities, retail establishments and restaurants all run the risk of being invaded by rodents, cockroaches and ants due to the nature of their business involving handling large volumes of…