Food-safety incidents are increasingly triggered or complicated by pest activity, and client expectations of their pest contractor continue to increase. In this guest webinar, Dr Mike Ayers will guide you through a forensic mindset for pest control in food-handling and allied environments.
You’ll learn how to approach pest-related food-safety challenges like an investigator, how pests leave forensic traces, what contamination pathways matter, and how the documentation, risk-assessment and corrective actions should align with audit regimes and regulation.
Expect case-studies, failure-points, proofing checklists and technical insight built for the professional technician or surveyor.
Where: Online via Zoom
When: 12.30 pm, Wednesday 1 July 2026
Who: Member-only event 🔒
Tickets: Free (limited spaces)
BPCA Registered CPD Points: 1
Basis Prompt points: 1
In this member-only webinar, we’ll cover:
- Forensic evidence of pest-activity in food environments: tracking vectors, residue and pathways
- How pest-control links directly into food-safety requirements (HACCP, ISO 22000, audit readiness)
- Proofing and corrective action: how to bridge pest control with food-safety documentation and audit trails
- Real-world case studies: what went wrong and how to apply best practices going forward.
Hosted by Dr Mike Ayers
About the speaker
Mike entered the industry in 1983 as a Service Technician with Rentokil after graduating from the universities of London and Leeds with a BSc (Hons) degree in Biology, and a PhD in Insect Neurobiology respectively. Quickly Mike progressed through various roles at Rentokil to become the Leeds Branch Manager in 1992. From there he became Rentokil’s Research and Development Project Leader which included initiating the progression of significant technological initiatives in Mouse Monitoring and Radar Gassing.
In 1996 Mike left Rentokil to set up Precision Pest Management, a company based in Yorkshire which provides specialist Field Biologist services to the food industry. Following continued growth, the company now boasts a consultancy division which provides technical services and training across Europe.
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