Tag: Birds
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Common Pests – Birds
Birds can gain access to food preparation and storage areas through doors, windows and ventilators. They scavenge for food and contaminate it with bacteria in and on their bodies and also with their droppings. Once established they can be very hard to get rid of. They flourish near take-away shops and open-air eating places. Always…
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Keep pests away from food
There are three main kinds of pests which are commonly found in places where food for human consumption is prepared or stored. (There’s also a fourth type, namely student chefs who can eat like a plague of locusts sometimes, but that’s a different story.) The main types are: rodents – such as mice and rats…
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Other sources of bacteria
Having already talked about the two main sources of food poisoning bacteria – raw food and humans – now we can look at some other common sources. Flies and other insects Birds Rats and mice All these pests carry bacteria in their bodies and in their urine and droppings. They can infect food and places…