Fumigation

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Fumigation

World food production still suffers substantial losses due to pests during post-harvest storage and commodity transport. An effective, reliable pest control program is needed to control and reduce damage inflicted by insect pests during trade, logistics and warehousing of agricultural commodities, food and feed production and processing.

Also, increasing trade development implies the movement of wooden items throughout the globe. This can pose a threat to biotopes around the world as wood is a suitable vector for some major pests.

Fumigation, stock protection and pest control are highly specialised areas where SGS has invaluable expertise. Our worldwide network enables us to operate at a short notice in any port or region in:

Europe
Black Sea region
Middle East
Baltic Sea
Africa
Americas

SGS Fumigation services target agricultural customers who are mainly involved in the export of agricultural commodities, which includes:

Fumigation of cargo
- Fumigation of agricultural products: cereals, pulses, cocoa, peanuts, coffee, tobacco, etc.
- Treatment of agricultural products against insects and mites
- Treatment in bulk, bagged commodities, stacks, silo, warehouses
Port related fumigation
- Fumigation “in transit” (during voyage)
- Cockroach destruction in ships' accommodation
- Deratisation
- Disinfections of empty holds, planes
- Denaturation and coloration
- Fumigation during storage: silos, warehouses and tanks
- Fumigation during transport: ships, barges, trains, trucks, containers
Disinfections and fumigation in industry: food industry, flour mills, breweries, malt houses
Pre-shipment treatment of wooden packaging materials (dunnage, crates, weir timbers and pallets) according to ISPM-15
Quarantine fumigation of wood and timber in order to obtain a phytosanitary certificate
Ventilation and gas free measurement