I've never been on a site which has had a field biologist inspection less than 4 times a year, 4 times a year, IME is really typical! A field biologist generally is more knowledgable regarding pest species and prevention than a technologist
Hello GMO,
Things are likely very different here.
I have to say that I only come in few companies(<10) that contracted pest controller to perform these inspection annually and I know only one company that has performed it 4 times a year. This company stopped with this high frequency, because they were not able to solve the action ithin the 3 months time frame.
Let me tel you first, that i come only in 'wet' industry: meat, meat production, fish, fish production, ready to eat meals/salads, snacks, canned pet food, produce and
prepared fruits/vegetables. I have no knowledge/experience from dry food companies. Maybe this make the difference.
I am also not quite sure what you mean by field biologist inspection. I suppose it is, what I have described in a previous post in this thread.
In general the companies I visit have a contracted pest controller (I have no customers wich employs onw pest controller). The contracted pest controller conducts 8 to 12 times a year an inspection. Follow ups are done if needed. Circa 40% of my customers contract the pest controller to do a hygiene inspection annually. If no infestation occurres. I do not see the need to conduct such an inspection 4 times a year. Esspecially when most organisations are not doing this at all at the moment and do not have any problems.
So, rather we are talking about different inspections or we are operating in different industries or we just have different opinions/experience about this issue.
I am really interested to hear from other members in other regions how pest control inspections and survey requirements are filled and if this is sufficient.