Description

Date of Training: 20th April  2023 

Timing: 2 PM- 6 PM (IST)

Trainer: Mr. Giridhar Pai

Pest management is an important component of food safety. Though pest occurrence in a food facility or a product is a reputation risk, you must carefully deal with pests around food by using a sound approach. Integrated Pest Management or IPM prevents pest occurrence but also ensures food safety from the pest treatments.

IPM is a process and not a one-time event and relies on chemical pesticides only as one approach to managing pests. IPM focuses on denying food, water, and shelter pests look for at a food factory. The seven steps of IPM are:

1. Inspection
2. Prevention
3. Identification
4. Analysis
5. Treatment
6. Monitoring
7. Documentation

In this Pest Management in a Food Safety Program Master Class series, we shall discuss in detail the seven IPM steps for a safe production environment that results in quality food products.

Course Agenda:

• Introduction
• Pest management inspection
• Pest prevention
• Pest identification: Common pests
• Pest trend analysis: monitoring trends, analysis, corrective action
• Pest treatments
• Pest monitoring: Devices, system, trap placement maps, thresholds, remote monitoring
• Pest management documentation
• Meeting requirements of food safety standards
• Pest management success through IPM

About the Trainer:

Mr. Giridhar Pai started his career as a Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager thereafter, graduating into sales roles as Key Account Manager (KAM) and as a Business Head. His expertise includes the food industry, pest control services, and agricultural commodity warehousing.