Within a few years it will be used within in food companies playing an important role monitoring and controlling flying insects using elettroinsetticide traps to attract insects on the glue panels.
For years these devices have been widely installed by internal food companies electricians and often in places unfit to perform their function properly.
Today Pest Control companies can collaborate with the Office Quality Area to install these traps carefully studying the number and type of traps and find suitable position of installation to ensure the proper "filter" of insects coming from external areas and exclude that they reach the most 'sensitive areas such as the production departments and storage of raw materials.
The periodic review of the adhesives panels allows the technician exterminator to recognize the main kind of species and can provide valuable information to the causes of their presence (cargo doors and open drain, incorrect methods of waste disposal, bad management of outdoor areas etc.) allowing the implementation of targeted "corrective action."
To constantly maintain the highest possible efficiency of elettroinsetticide traps it is necessary to ensure a smooth replacement of UV tubes at the time they lose their appeal effect.
The wavelength required attraction of insects gradually decreases and even if apparently the coloration of the tubes remains the same the efficiency of traps decreases significantly.
Manufacturers of UV neon tubes recommend replacing the UV tubes after twelve months of life.
Typically the pest control companies provide for their replacement during the spring and summer months in order to ensure the maximum efficiency in the most "critical" period for the presence of the winged insects.
We must remember that in the food industry it is practically mandatory to use shatterproof UV tubes ie, coated with a protective sheath which avoids, in case of accidental impact, the fragmentation of the glasses and their dispersion in the rooms below, with the risk of contamination of processed products.
We also recall that the UV tubes can not be recycled either as a glass nor treated as mixed waste: for they contain mercury and must be collected and disposed of as Hazardous Waste Special.
More insights on www.romanidisinfestazioni.com
For years these devices have been widely installed by internal food companies electricians and often in places unfit to perform their function properly.
Today Pest Control companies can collaborate with the Office Quality Area to install these traps carefully studying the number and type of traps and find suitable position of installation to ensure the proper "filter" of insects coming from external areas and exclude that they reach the most 'sensitive areas such as the production departments and storage of raw materials.
The periodic review of the adhesives panels allows the technician exterminator to recognize the main kind of species and can provide valuable information to the causes of their presence (cargo doors and open drain, incorrect methods of waste disposal, bad management of outdoor areas etc.) allowing the implementation of targeted "corrective action."
To constantly maintain the highest possible efficiency of elettroinsetticide traps it is necessary to ensure a smooth replacement of UV tubes at the time they lose their appeal effect.
The wavelength required attraction of insects gradually decreases and even if apparently the coloration of the tubes remains the same the efficiency of traps decreases significantly.
Manufacturers of UV neon tubes recommend replacing the UV tubes after twelve months of life.
Typically the pest control companies provide for their replacement during the spring and summer months in order to ensure the maximum efficiency in the most "critical" period for the presence of the winged insects.
We must remember that in the food industry it is practically mandatory to use shatterproof UV tubes ie, coated with a protective sheath which avoids, in case of accidental impact, the fragmentation of the glasses and their dispersion in the rooms below, with the risk of contamination of processed products.
We also recall that the UV tubes can not be recycled either as a glass nor treated as mixed waste: for they contain mercury and must be collected and disposed of as Hazardous Waste Special.
More insights on www.romanidisinfestazioni.com
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