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Serving the Hospitality Industry practice to minimize potential contamination. food contamination from spilt faeces or urine
As the hospitality industry grows worldwide In an increasingly legislated environment food and the humaneness of capture and disposal of
through increasing domestic consumption and companies lay off the risk by contracting auditing the trapped rodent. Equally the requirements
international tourism, so too do the complexities bodies, perhaps the most known in the industry to maintain organic supplier status demand a
of serving the industry. Increasingly the being the American Institute of Baking (AIB), rethink in the use of insect control for both flying
leading brands in the hospitality industry are although AIB's history has been traditionally and crawling insects. This is where the potential
international, from the fast food restaurants linked with North American wholesale and retail contamination and pragmatism come together
to the hotel chains. Many demand common baking, the Institute currently serves many in the increasing use and recommendation of
standards and protocols across their company, segments of the food processing, distribution, natural pyrethrin based products.
irrespective of the local availability or registration foodservice, and retail industries worldwide.
of products. Their protocols often take little AIB standards are increasingly being applied In conclusion, the food industry is a major user
account of the different pest management especially for food manufacturers wishing to of pest management services and products, but
training and certification schemes in the many supply US headquartered food and beverage is probably the most demanding industry market
markets in which they operate or franchise. The
arrival of brands, such as Starbucks and Starwood
often signal the opening of markets to faster
economic development. It is to the credit of
the pest management industry worldwide that
these companies are able to find high quality
and increasingly international service company
brands already present in these markets as
I highlighted last year in this column. The
challenges in the hospitality industry continue
to grow as increasingly professional service
standards have to be delivered not only in the
hotel restaurants, high street and shopping mall
fast food and seated outlets, but on board cruise
liners on a short stopover or aeroplanes on a
tight departure slot. Increasingly the pest control
is discrete, rat boxes disguised as rocks in hotel
restaurants in atrium gardens and insect light
traps disguised as wall lights or table lamps front
of house in restaurants.
“Supermarkets consider many aspects that are related to image rather
Auditing in the Food Processing
than technical control before awarding a service contract.”
Industry
Finally let us consider pest control in food
processing, be that in a high technology hygienic companies. The influences on pest management to service. By its legislative nature and increasing
food plant or the small kitchen at a take away have been significant. For rodent control under international activity it is at the cutting edge
outlet. This is where pest management is auditing processes, consideration must be taken of pest control. It is leading the introduction of
changing to meet an increasing number of of the requirement to place baits only after a improved environmental practice and service
external factors and demands. monitoring programme. That all baits are secured efficiency. The size of its companies dwarfs even
within a lockable bait station and cannot be of the largest manufacturers and service companies
Pest management companies the requirement a formulation that the rodent can carry away, in our industry. A Giant to be respected, to be
to operate within food legislation and HACCP such as a pellet. These activities are to minimize listened to, to learn from and to be served by the
principals. This increasingly requires that the any potential for pesticide contamination. In highest quality our industry can offer.
service technician has a basic training in food addition there are procedures concerning the
hygiene to ensure that pest management use of glue board for humaneness reasons. The rob@xenexassociates.com
practices can be integrated into kitchen use of live catch traps covers both the issues of www.xenexassociates.com
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