Environmental Safeguards and responsibilities

The demands of consumers for high quality and safe food means that there is an ever-increasing need for higher standards in all stages of the food chain. This has led to much stricter quality assurance requirements from buyers, such as supermarkets and food processing companies.

Among these requirements is the need for more effective control of pests, such as rodents, which contaminate and destroy food while still in farm stores.

At the same time, there is a greater recognition of the need to protect and enhance wildlife in rural areas.

The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) aims to protect wildlife while promoting and providing effective rodent control through the responsible use of rodenticides in rural areas.

The move comes as the government appointed Rodenticide Risk Assessment Technical working group (RRAT) warns that irresponsible use of rodenticides can result in animals, including predatory birds and mammals, being exposed to these products.

Verminates Green policies are based on the effects that Rodenticides ( Rat & Mice Poisons) have on the animal food chain, whether it's wildlife or our pets. When a rodent eats the poison bait the amount of poison inside the rodent actually increases in strength.

This means the concentration is higher inside the dead or dying animal than the bait it first ate. When this happens as the rodent is still moving other animals still see it as prey, so animals such as foxes, cats, dogs eat them and the poisons effects them and vets have seen an increase in domestic pet poisoning.

Wild birds like kestrels, owls, hobbies, kites and buzzards have also been affected by the increase in Rodenticides and there numbers are being affected. The reports of this type of secondary poisoning are on the increase and the reports from vets and other wildlife groups back this up, such as Think Wild life Campaign.

This is why at Verminate our methods are restricted to using poison baits and the use of non toxic means of rodent control are used in most cases, it also stops those horrible smells of dead animals around your premises.

Only in controlled and confined areas will toxic baits ever be used.

Our methods of non toxic rodent control and removal are just as effective, if carried out by a skilled pest technician

Verminate ensure we practice in a safe manner protecting individuals and the environment from unnecessary damage.