Schedule of Events

Electronic remote monitoring is becoming an increasingly important tool among food safety professionals for rodent control. As monitoring technology has advanced, so have the number of ways you can deploy it in your facility. This presentation looks at how to best match your monitoring approach to your specific location, based on considerations including the type of traps or stations you use, the types of rodents that are most prevalent, and the layout of your facility.

We all know that monitoring in food facilities is important, it's a part of the audit standards! But monitoring is so much more than just putting down a station and checking it every so often. Let's talk about what a good monitoring program looks like and what role everyone has to play in the system. We will also touch on electronic/digital monitoring and how that impacts a good IPM program.

How to stop a pest problem before it starts using Xcluder’s proven products and applications.

In this session, Claudia Riegel, director at City of New Orleans Mosquito, Termite, and Rodent Control Board, will discuss rodent control in establishments that make and/or serve food. Using experiences from the field, Riegel will discuss identification and control measures.

VM Products® latest innovation, EZ KAT®, is a multi-catch station with a low-profile design and distinctive features for efficient, multiple catches of mice and insects. Crafted from durable plastic, EZ KAT® eliminates the concerns of rust and sharp edges commonly associated with traditional multi-catch stations and is designed for quick opening and servicing.

Mice and rats can go from one to twenty to two hundred if you aren’t constantly watching for them one can sneak by. During this session will discuss what steps you can do as a food service account and what you should ask your pest control company to assist you in keeping those mice and rats out. Rodents get their name because their teeth are constantly growing so they can gnaw better than many other mammals. When you have the biting power of 7,000 psi knowing what you must do to combat that power to keep rodents out of your structure is the first step in keeping them out.

We will review the different devices currently available to PMPs and show how these devices are being used to help PMPs identify high risk areas. Mark will share success stories and how VLINK devices can be deployed as part of a IPM program to provide a better rodent management plan, including how to leverage non-toxic methods.