Stored Product Pests Are a QA Problem, Not a Pest Problem

Stored product insects — Indian meal moths, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, confused flour beetles, rice weevils — are the pests that hide inside product, move through a facility in ingredients, and fail third-party audits. For Indianapolis food processors, bakeries, grocery DCs, and warehouses, a failed AIB, SQF, or BRC audit is not just a pest issue — it costs accounts, triggers customer complaints, and can shut down a production line. ProTech treats SPI work as a QA function first and a pest function second, with pheromone monitoring, sanitation auditing, and source elimination that generates the documentation your quality team actually needs in front of an auditor.

Our programs start with a full facility walkthrough — receiving, bulk storage, production, packaging, finished goods, and returns. We deploy a pheromone trap grid matched to the species mix in your products, establish baseline counts, and build a weekly or monthly monitoring rotation depending on throughput and risk. When counts move, we trace them back to the actual source — a forgotten bag of flour on a top rack, a cracked ingredient bin, a returned product pallet — and eliminate the source rather than just spraying the symptom. That source-first approach is what separates audit-grade SPI work from general pest control applied to a food facility.