Food safety remained the central theme for Pest Invasion 2016 held last month in Oakbrook Terrace, IL. The annual seminar, hosted by McCloud Services, featured experts on pest management in the food industry who presented information on exclusion, sanitation and other important components of a food safety program.
In his talk “Food Defense Roadmap of the Future,” Rod Wheeler of The Global Defense Institute discussed people as being one of the biggest risks to food safety and the people who produce food. Site vulnerability, cyber security, and product theft all put the food supply at risk. Wheeler recommends that all employees and vendors (particularly pest management professionals) always be on the watch for suspicious activity and report anything that looks unusual.