Food Pest Control & Removal - Bristol
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Food Pests - FAQ's
What Are Food Pests?
Food Pests are defined as an animal, insect or bird that contaminates or destroys food.
No matter how well many food premises are looked after they will in time attract unwanted guests. Some will come into the premises through doors and windows, while others will come in on customers, staff and inside deliveries - both inside the food and among the packaging. With the global food market on our door step much of the food we love comes from abroad as do the pests. What is required then, is vigilance and good house keeping practices. At WaspKill UK we have spent almost ten years teaching food safety courses to many hundreds of students from all areas of the food industry so when it comes to food safety and pest control, few can match our expertise. An interesting fact is that a single rat over the course of a year produce over 200kg of faeces and a staggering 50 litres or more of urine.
What Types Of Food Pests Are Dangerous?
Any food pest has the potential to contaminate or destroy food. Contamination occurs in a number of ways. Physical contamination is where the bodies, parts of bodies, pupae, cocoons, hairs, feathers or droppings etc get into food at any point in the pests life cycle. Microbiological contamination is where pests contaminate food with toxin forming or pathogenic bacteria, viruses, prions, fungi and parasites.
Also common is what we term, direct damage caused by consumption of the food either by rats and mice eating it or beetle larvae inside the food such as rice weevils and biscuit beetles eating it.
Once food is contaminated, it is said to be "unfit for human consumption" so has to be destroyed, costing you lots of money.
We understand how to stop food pests and this is where we can keep your business safe from prosecution or worse, closure.
What Diseases do Food Pests Carry and Spread?
Rats & Mice: leptospiroses, listeriosis, toxoplasmosis, tuberculoses, cholera and typhoid etc.
Flies: typhoid, dysentery, polio, salmonella, cholera, anthrax and even E-coli.
Cockroaches: cause allergies leading to respiratory disease.
Confused Flour Beetle: cancer forming compounds.
These are just a few examples, and the point is that you need to keep your customers safe and this means among other things, keeping the food safe from pests.
What Does A Food Safety Inspection or Pest Treatment Cost?
Being a specialist means our pest extermination services are faster and more flexible than many other providers. We are usually on site within hours or faster if it is an emergency, getting rid of food pest problems quickly.
How Quickly Can You Get To Us?
Our standard, same day Pest elimination Services for the management of Food Pets is always available, and for extra peace of mind our 24 Hour Emergency Pest Control Service operates 24/7 so help is never far away.
How Do We Book Food Pest Control?
Simply Call 01275 858888
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- Local - You are supporting a Local Bristol business offering a personal service
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- Trust - You can relax knowing we are well known and have an excellent reputation
- Convenience - You benefit from our weekend and evening pest control service
- Reliable - You Know we turn up when we promise too
- Quality - All your work is done properly - we never take short cuts or use low quality materials
- Code of Practice - We adhere to the BPCA code of practice
- Advice - FREE advice when you need it, so you can always make an informed decision
- Training - ongoing CPD ensures our service to you continues to improve
- Health & Safety - We take this very seriously and have a Written Health & Safety policy
Pest Control Advice:
Getting rid of Food Pests and other insects like ants, wasps and bedbugs is not as simple as many pesticide manufacturers will lead you to believe. The chemicals or poisons on offer in supermarkets and shops often have a fraction of the effect that is achieved through professional products and this means you are likely to get through many cans of treatment without actually achieving full control. As the only Cornish pest control company offering a dedicated insect control service we are able to deliver pest control treatments that are often guaranteed to work.
Pest control is all about understanding the pest you are trying to eliminate or prevent. The Wasp for example creates a wasp nest early in the year so if you wanted to control wasps in St Austell you would probably guess that checking for a new wasp nest in your loft in April and May would allow you to remove a wasp nest safely before it became too large. By understanding your pest, you are able to plan control in advance, before infestation occurs and the cost of elimination becomes high.
WaspKill UK are here to help - so why not give us a call and put your trust in the experts.
Areas our pest control & Wasp removal service covers in Somerset and Bristol include:
Abbots Leigh - Ashton - Backwell - Barrow - Bath - Bedminster - Bedminster Down - Bishopsworth - Blagdon - Bradley Stoke - Bridgewater - Bristol - Chew Magna - Chew Stoke - Cleeve - Clevedon - Clifton - Clifton Wood - Congresbury - Cotham - East Harptree - Exeter - Failand - Farleigh - Filton - Flax Bourton - Ham Green - Horfield - Leigh Woods - Long Ashton - Lulsgate - Nailsea - Patchway - Pill - Portishead - Sneyd Park - Southville - St Pauls - Tickenham - Weston-Super-Mare - Whichurch Wraxall and Yatton.Areas our pest control & Wasp removal service covers in Devon and Cornwall include:
Bugle - Cornwall - Cornwall - Plymouth - St Austell - Truro - Wadebridge -