NSF Cook & Thurber To Adopt NPMA Food Plant Standards

FAIRFAX, Va. — NSF Cook & Thurber’s Jim Bail announced that, as part of the company’s expectations for inspections for 2007, they will adopt NPMA’s Pest Management Standards for Food Plants, effective Jan. 1, 2007. Bail announced the decision last week at PestWorld ’06 during a panel discussion that also featured representatives from AIB and Silliker.

“Two years ago, when we started down this road, we hoped that some day, we would get consistency and maybe get the groups to adopt our work,” said NPMA Vice President Greg Baumann. “This adoption by the second largest third party auditing group is a breakthrough that our industry has been hoping for. The need for the standardization goes back decades.”

NPMA also worked with AIB, ASI, and Silliker and is encouraged by progress made with these groups.

IN OTHER NEWS. Baumann also announced that the NPMA Commercial Division Committee was named 2005-2006 Committee of the Year at the NPMA Annual Meeting. In addition, Chair Don McCarthy, of Braemar Pest Management, Halifax, Nova Scotia, was named 2005-2006 Chair of the Year.