Month: February 2021

When one plans to go to a fine dining restaurant, one expects delicious food, impeccable service and a calming ambiance. What one does not expect or wish for is the presence of unwanted creepy crawlies in their food or anywhere near them. In spite of this, the presence of pests in restaurants is a very common occurrence.

Restaurant kitchens prove to be perfect hideout spots for these pests. Lots of readily available food and warm, tight, dingy places are perfect for them to live and thrive. These pests carry with them a plethora of pathogens. Direct or indirect exposure to food contaminated with them is sure to lead to a multitude of diseases including vomiting, diarrhoea and trauma.

Even a slight carelessness from the caretaker’s/cleaner’s end can result in an infection that can be disastrous for the hygiene of the kitchen and eventually to the customer’s health.

Finding rodent droppings and bugs in the food can be very off-putting for the customer and will definitely taint the name of the restaurant. There are multiple incidences of such happenings. Few evidences are given below:

“S’pore man finds cockroach in noodles from Yishun store & hid in room for the rest of the day”

While enjoying a bowl of noodles for lunch, a man in Singapore found something that would cause him to lose his appetite for the rest of the day.

According to Stomp, the man, known only as Tan, was about five to seven mouthfuls into his meal on Dec. 5 when he found a cockroach nestled among the noodles and soup.

“My mind turned blank. I screamed and rushed to the toilet to vomit out my food,” he told the online portal.

Tan had ordered three bowls of noodles from Taste Beyond Taste Ban Mian & Fish Soup — located in Yishun — for two friends and himself.

The order was placed through Foodpanda, who subsequently gave Tan a full refund.

He told Stomp that he felt “extremely uncomfortable afterwards.”

“(I) hid in my room the whole day without lunch and dinner. I also felt unwell and traumatised.”

“UK Woman Finds Sink Plug In Her Onion Bhaji, Restaurant Owner Offers A Mere Refund For The Mistake”

“According to a Daily Star report, the 65-year-old woman had ordered some food with her family from two restaurants in Bristol, one Indian and one Mediterranean, after being split on what they wanted to eat.

While eating the Indian food from the restaurant named Garam Masala, her grandson made the discovery of the batter-covered sink plug. 

Speaking to the Bristol Post, the woman, who didn’t want to be named, said: “We’ve used Garam Masala many times before and never had any reason to be unhappy. We’ve never had any bad food from there.”

The family promptly complained to the restaurant, Garam Masala, and the culprit responsible for the mishap has since been fired, reports Bristol Post.”

Cockroaches and rats in the food have been reported to be the most common reason for the shutting down of many a restaurants world-wide. Such eateries prove to be health hazards to everyone who work there as well as the customers who eat from there. Evidence of this is given below:

“Rats and roaches: Brisbane’s worst suburbs for food safety”

“The discovery of crawling cockroaches and dead rats were some of the reasons at least half a dozen food safety fines were dished out last year following hundreds of complaints lodged against Brisbane restaurants and eateries.

Brisbane City Council received 771 complaints relating to food safety in 2020 – 437 about food premises and 334 about unsafe food and infection.

Topping the list of worst-offending suburbs was Brisbane’s CBD, where 72 complaints were lodged, followed by Sunnybank with 26 and West End with 25.

Councillor Kim Marx, who chairs the Community Health and Safety Committee, said council insisted businesses met strict food-safety standards.

“But every complaint made to council about food safety is followed up with an on-site inspection, and food businesses are not allowed to continue operating if they present a health risk to the public.

“Unfortunately, there has been a small number of Brisbane food businesses that have not upheld council’s high standard, and many of those businesses have been charged in court.”

At least half a dozen Brisbane food outlets were fined last year after council inspectors found dead rats and cockroaches on the premises.

“Anyone with concerns about the standard of food handling or storage at a Brisbane restaurant, cafe or food truck is encouraged to report this to council so it can be investigated,” Cr Marx said.”

The use of toxic pesticides or rat-kills are discouraged at places like kitchens because of its close-proximity to edible stuff. Intake of pesticides via can be equally harmful if not more. This has led to a prevalent question about what exactly can be used to combat this menace.

C-Tech Corporation has the perfect solution to keep the pests away and forever! We manufacture a range of extremely low toxicity, low hazard, and environment-friendly pest repellent products. Our product, Combirepel™, is a blend of green chemistry and smart technology and is the unique combination of our globally patented Rodrepel™, rodent aversive and Termirepel™, insects and termites aversive. It acts through a series of highly developed intricate mechanisms ensuring that rodents and other insect pests are kept away from the target application by the mechanism of repellence. Our eco-friendly and sustainable product does not kill the target species but only repels them.

Rodrepel™ triggers a fear response in rodents thus protecting the application. It causes severe temporary distress to the mucous membrane of the rodents due to which the pest stays away from the application. The product triggers an unpleasant reaction in case if the pest tries to gnaw away the application. After encountering the above-mentioned emotions, the animal instinctively perceives it with something it should stay away from and stores this information for future reference. The fact that certain rodents are repelled is mimicked by other rodents as well. Thus, the other rodents too stay away from the applications. The unpleasant experience is imprinted within the animal’s memory and passed on to its progeny.

Termirepel™ temporarily inhibits the mating cycle of the insects. The product impairs the ability of the insects to reproduce, that is the insects will not lay eggs or the laid eggs will be infertile. The product causes feeding disruption in an insect by triggering an unpleasant reaction within the insect which might try to feed on the application. The product temporarily blocks the reproduction system of the insects by hindering the release of vital hormones for growth.

Combirepel™ is available in the form of a solid masterbatch, liquid concentrate, lacquer, spray and wood polish additive.

The liquid concentrate can be mixed with paints and applied all over the restaurant, especially inside the kitchens. It can also be applied to already installed cables and wires and other entry points. The liquid concentrate is compatible with all kinds of paints and solvents. This will keep the rodents away.

The lacquer can be applied to the flooring, kitchen trolleys, cabinets, even the kitchen platforms.

The wood polish additive can be blended with wood polish and applied on the storage units and furniture.

Our product in the form of a spray is very easy to use. It can be sprayed on the infested area to repel the pests and prevent them from entering.

The LD50 value of Combirepel™ is 50,000 mg/kg making it non-poisonous, which is an important parameter to be considered in the food industry. By using our products, you can get an effective and long-lasting solution against rodent nuisance.

The product is compliant with RoHS, RoHS2, RoHS3, REACH, APVMA, NEA, EU-BPR, and FIFRA exempted.

Contact us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com if you’re facing problems with rodents and get best remedies to combat the pest menace.

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Bees provide a vital ecological service i.e. pollination. Pollinators help in the reproduction of plants which provide food and shelter to diverse wildlife. Even if one local pollinator is removed it may affect us directly and indirectly!

The decline in numbers of European honeybees, bumblebees, and other native pollinators has been well known for over a decade. Studies addressing pollinator decline kicked into high gear in 2006 when Bee Colony Collapse Disorder first appeared. The highest loss from April 2018 to April 2019 is reached up to 40%. The use of agricultural pesticides is a damaging piece of this puzzle.

Neonicotinoids are popular amongst the news in recent months. They are now widely known as a nicotine-derived category of pesticides and captures 1/4th of pesticide use. These pesticides are absorbed directly into the plant’s tissue by drenching the soil, directly injecting into the plant’s steam, or applied as a seed coating. If these pesticides are absorbed by plant tissue, pollen, and nectar they become toxic, and pollinators who visit the flowering plants are exposed to those harmful pesticides.

The environmental impacts of Neonicotinoids go well beyond honey bees, including mortality in birds, mammals, and a variety of non-target insects. 

 Many scientists have linked the mass bee die-offs to an increase in the use of pesticides.

Let’s have a look at some shreds of evidence!

Legal threat over bee-harming pesticide use

BBC News | January 27, 2021

In 2018, the EU banned the outdoor use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which harm pollinating insects such as bees. But following Brexit, the government approved the emergency use of one neonicotinoid to combat a crop disease.

Multiple studies, including large-scale field trials, have found that neonicotinoids harm pollinators and aquatic life. Research has also shown that they can be linked to the wider collapse in biodiversity.

The government says it allowed the use of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam because of the “potential danger” to the sugar beet crop from beet yellows virus, which is spread by aphids.

It stressed that the use of the chemical would be strictly limited, and the risk to bees was “acceptable” because sugar beet doesn’t flower. Alternative chemicals should be used to kill any wild flowering plants in and around the crops, the government said.

Neonicotinoids are the most widely-used class of insecticides in the world and they work by disrupting the insect central nervous system.

Using neonicotinoids not only threatens bees but is also extremely harmful to aquatic wildlife because the majority of the pesticide leaches into the soil and then into waterways. Worse still, farmers are being recommended to use weedkillers to kill wildflowers in and around sugar beet crops in a misguided attempt to prevent harm to bees in the surrounding area. This is a double blow for nature.

The pesticide that caused bee colonies to collapse is killing birds now

Salon | August 18, 2020

Neonicotinoids thought to be responsible for colony collapse disorder, have detrimental effects on birds, too. Environmentalists and farmers were relieved to discover that the mysterious and sudden drop in bee populations in the past decade turned out to be linked to neonicotinoids, a class of insecticides that are chemically akin to nicotine. Solving that mystery was not merely important to ecologists, but also crucial to human survival: if major bee communities become extinct or near-extinct, it could devastate human food sources. 

Yet as history shows, pesticides applied to kill one type of pest don’t generally stay confined to those animals. (See also: DDT.) Horrifyingly but perhaps unsurprisingly, scientists now believe that bees aren’t the only animals that are adversely affected by neonicotinoids. Many bird species, too, appear to be in decline as a result of neonicotinoids trickling up through the food chain. 

According to a new research paper published in Nature Sustainability, the rising use of neonicotinoids led to a drop in bird biodiversity in the United States between 2008 and 2014, scientists say. While bird populations have been steadily dropping anyway the authors note that the bird population in the United States has dropped by an estimated 29 percent since 1970. The researchers were able to separate the general drop in bird biodiversity from the specific drop that appeared to be due to neonicotinoid spraying. 

Till now, we all know that pollinators are facing several harms, from habitat extinction and increased chemical use to parasites and climate change. Many study experiments have been performed to find the root of population declining and consequences of pollinator’s extinction, only one conclusion being repeatedly drawn i.e. to ban those pesticides! 

But we did not even take a step ahead to stop this nuisance. Many countries have banned such harmful pesticides to be distributed within their country. A ban on manufacturing and exporting them was not restricted. This allowed industries to make huge profits by selling them in other countries.

Even we humans face the consequences of these pesticides. The physical effects which are visible after immediate exposure include burning of eyes and fingers, rashes and allergies are very common. Oral ingestion leads to nausea, vomiting, and other carcinogenic diseases.

It is more important now to stop the already gruesome situation from becoming worse and we know enough to act now! 

We at C Tech Corporation provide a range of bio-safe, non-toxic and non-hazardous pest aversive products which can be used as an alternative against those toxic pesticides.

Our products offer the perfect solution for pest nuisance, which may lead to reduce the use of harmful pesticides and protecting our mother nature from its adverse effects.

Combirepel^TM is an insect, animal, and bird aversive repellent which does not kills but repels the pest. The product works on a repellency mechanism which indirectly helps to maintain the balance in the ecosystem.

Combirepel^TM is available in various forms such as masterbatch, liquid concentrate, lacquer, wood polish additive, and spray.

Masterbatch can be combined with polymeric applications such as pipes, greenhouse films and floating covers, etc. The liquid concentrate can be mixed with paints in a specific ratio and can be applied to fences in farms or gardens to keep pests away. The lacquer is a topical application that is compatible with most surfaces like concrete, metal, polymer, wood, ceramic, etc. Lacquer can be applied on already installed drip irrigation lines, walls of a warehouse where harvested crops are stored, thus protecting them from pest damage. Wood polish additive can be applied on wooden fences to increase their durability. The spray can be used directly anywhere to repel the desired pest.

Combirepel^TM spray is safe for use in farms and warehouses.

Combirepel^TM is cost-effective, inert, and thermally stable and does not degrade on exposure to heat and sunlight. It is RoHS, RoHS2, RoHS3, REACH, NEA, EU BPR, APVMA compliant and FIFRA exempted.

Contact us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com to know more about the use of our repellent products against pest menace and let’s contribute towards a sustainable environment!