8.2.2.1 Health hazards from pests
8.2.2.1 Health Hazards from Pests
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Health hazards from pests:
- Effective pest control programme play a key role in overall sanitation of seafood processing factories.
- Insects, rodents and birds can easily enter the processing premises and contaminate the food
- Pest may be divided into 8 groups. Insects and other invertebrates, mammals and birds.
- Relatively few species are encountered in food plant.
Cockroaches
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Flying insects
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Rodents
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Birds
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They transfer microorganisms to food.
Objectionable also due to their offensive smell.
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Flies – good carriers of bacteria like Salmonella, Vibrio cholera etc.
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Health risks from rodents – plague, salmonellosis, Jaundice etc.
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They transmit microorganisms to foods through their droppings.
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Identification and control measures of pests can be effected at following levels
- Proper plant design and operation
- Design and operation
- Destruction within the plant
- Proximity to a refuse dump increases chances of pests
- By proper design pests can be controlled
- Final line of defense is destruction
Best method of control
Cockroaches
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Flying insects
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Rodents
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Birds
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To eliminate habitat, Remove food sources, Keeping premises dry, Sealing of cracks and crevices and Application of insecticides
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Removal of breeding habitat, Removal of garbage, Fly screens, Air curtains at entry, Electrocutors and insecticides
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Avoid garbage, Avoid chances for entry, Use of traps and rodenticides
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Repellents and physical barriers
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e. Metal pieces
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f. Filth
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g. Decomposition of fishery products
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From machines,
From outside,
Metal detectors – final solution
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Those engaged in harvest,transport and processing to be are careful.
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Enzymatic action,
Oxidative changes,
Due to bacteria
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CCP
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Packaging
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Raw material,
Receiving- monitoring needed
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