Food processing, pest management
Food processing, pest management
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Food Processing Pest Management: Where Pests Are Hiding in Your Facility — And How an IPM Program Helps Stop Them

By Patricia Hottel
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Pests hide wherever food residue, moisture, warmth and access points converge. In food processing facilities, those conditions appear every day in loading docks, floor drains, equipment voids and ingredient storage. A proactive Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program is the FDA-aligned standard for identifying and eliminating those conditions before they trigger a compliance issue or failed audit

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Food Safety Training Needs: Adapting to Today’s Market. A Q&A with Fabiola Negrón

By Fabiola Negrón
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FSQA leaders have their hands and days full, so training isn’t often on the front burner of responsibilities. After all, HR is on it, right? But food safety training is one of the leading indicators every FSQA leader should be focused on, to help ensure lagging indicators — like lab results and quality holds — are exactly where they should be.

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HEMCO’s new Laboratory Fume Hood

The SL series of high-performance laboratory fume hoods. They are constructed Totally, interior and exterior, of chemical resistant, flame retardant, lightweight composite resin for a fume hood that will outlive the competition. This non-metallic fume hood has an interior fume chamber that is molded one piece seamless with all corners coved and a slotted VaraFlow…

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