Pest Control For Grocery Stores

Professional Pest Control For Your Grocery Store

Offering an almost endless supply of food and water, grocery stores or international food shops provide a perfect haven for pests such as mice, rats, and cockroaches. But once these pests manage to sneak in through cracks and crevices in your facility they can wreak widespread damage to your business.

Mice and rats consume goods meant for sale, contaminating about 10 times as much food as they actually eat. Meanwhile, they can also chew through inorganic, indigestible materials, damaging wiring, drywall, insulation, siding, and wallboards.

Rats and mice can also trigger allergies and spread serious diseases, like rat-bite fever, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, leptospirosis, salmonellosis, and E. coli infection, as well as being carriers of parasitic insects, ticks, and mites. Worse, some mice can carry and transmit Hantavirus, a rare respiratory disease, which can be fatal in humans, with no known cure.

Meanwhile, cockroaches are extremely unsanitary, contaminating food and causing gastroenteritis and diseases such as  dysentery, typhoid fever, and cholera. Customers or employees who are frequently exposed to cockroaches can develop severe allergic reactions.

But some rodents can instinctively avoid bait and traps, and cockroaches are one of the most adaptable creatures on the planet, making all these pests difficult to remove, let alone prevent coming back. To truly eradicate these pests, you need professional pest control services.

Resources

• Working the Bugs Out: Your Guide to Supply Chain Pest Management