Managing Pests and Food Safety Together
By Hank Hirsch, B.C.E. What if you could meet your food safety requirements and improve the effectiveness of your pest management program? You would probably say, “Sign me up!” Comprehensive Food Safety (CFS) and its parent company, RK Environmental Services, offer its food industry clients a lineup of dual purpose services that allow quality assurance […]
Remote Monitoring: Is It The Future of Rodent Management?
By Hank Hirsch, B.C.E Pest management is an ever-evolving science with new products, equipment and service methods continually being tested and added to clients’ pest management programs in an attempt to enhance pest prevention and utilize technology for better record keeping. One of the newest technological developments starting to permeate into the commercial pest sector […]
RK Tech Bulletin – March 2018
No Love for Stored Product Pests
Breaking Stored Product Pest Hearts With Mating Disruption By Hank Hirsch, B.C.E When I ask “What is a pheromone?” most people reply that it is some sort of sex attractant. Although they are correct, pheromones are much more than that. Pheromones are chemicals that are released by insects (and other animals), into the environment, affecting […]
Bird Management Protocols Fly to the Top with New Mandates
When we teach the RK Environmental Services team about IPM or food safety, it’s always easiest for them to understand when we simplify our message. And we want to do the same for our clients. For food safety, we can make things clearer by breaking down the broad topic into categories such as employee practices, […]