McCloud Provides Stored Product Pest Prevention Tips

With warm weather comes stored product pests, including cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles, flour beetles, indianmeal moths, rice weevils, sawtoothed grain beetles and warehouse beetles. These pests can wreak havoc in food processing plants as they are not only detrimental to a food safety audit, but they can cause major disruption in production due to product infestations. 

McCloud Services shares expertise on how to prevent and eliminate stored product pests this summer to maintain a clean audit score and meet new FSMA requirements. McCloud experts authored three articles to share how food processing plants and retail stores can eliminate stored product pests before an infestation occurs.

See the articles below to learn the different prevention methods for stored product pests as it relates to food processing plants, retail stores and consumers’ homes.

• Keeping Pet Food from Becoming Pest Food follows the journey of a bag of dog food, discussing the types of stored product pests that threaten pet food and how these pests can infest the manufacturer’s facility, a retail store and even the consumer’s home. It also provides insights on the different exclusion methods of stored product pests from these three locations.

• Keeping Indianmeal Moths Out of Your Food Facility discusses what an Indianmeal Moth is and shares its life cycle. The article then dives into an innovative control method called pheromone mating disruption that allows large facilities to eliminate stored product pest populations without closing down the plant.

• Spring Welcomes Stored Product Pests details the most common stored product pests food facilities need to be aware of with the arrival of warm weather. It also shares information on pheromone monitoring programs as these are now a critical requirement to the American Institute of Baking (AIB) food safety standards.