Food Retail / Grocery
Seitz Bros. food retail and grocery programs have the primary objective of protecting your customers by ensuring the quality, value and safety of your products.
The most successful programs have an integrated strategy that includes at least two or more of the following control measures.
- Sanitation - the removal of food and water sources stress pest populations and make traps and baits more effective.
- Mechanical Control - traps, barriers (caulking), mechanical exclusion (screening), using air currents and manipulation of environmental factors (temperature, humidity).
- Cultural Control - altering habits or behaviors of people to reduce infestations
- Biological Control - using biological organisms such as beneficial bacteria to digest debris from hard to clean areas, aquatic breeding insects, parasitic wasps for fly control or fungi for cockroach control, can be very effective methods.
- Chemical Control - the correct and safe use of pesticides may be used to correct a pest infestation.
Pests covered under our Food Retail and Grocery programs include cockroaches, ants (excluding Pharaoh), spiders (on interior), flies and monitoring for stored product pests.
Control and prevention of pest infestations require a cooperative effort between all grocery and Seitz Bros. personnel. Sanitation, building maintenance and store procedures all play a critical role in the effectiveness of the program and your employees can directly influence these conditions.
