How to Prevent Rats in the Kitchen

In the canteen the kitchen, there are always different vegetables, fruit and cooking oil residue, attracting many rats and threatening our food security. Some catering businesses have been exposed or punished by the media because of the rat problem. Therefore, every catering businesses need to attach great importance to the anti-rat work, to protect the consumer dining environment and provide food safety and health. Restaurant kitchen how to do a good job of rat prevention work and management? We can do that from three aspects.

 

Firstly, eliminate rats' habitats. Rats often hide these places in restaurants and kitchens: above the ceiling, fore hydrant cabinet, wall cracks, inside the hearth, warehouse, obsolete equipment stacking place, etc. Keeping the environment clean and tidy, keeping the goods in the box, and turning over and inspect regularly can prevent mice from hiding.

 

Secondly, keep rats out. Rats are always everywhere, the restaurant drain is the worst disaster area. However, it is easy for people to ignore. In order to prevent mouses in the drain, the grate and floor drain should be covered and the grate should be with a gap of less than 6 mm and the floor drain should be equipped with an anti-rat cover. The crack beneath the door is the place that is often ignored. Even the door is closed, it may not be able to prevent the rat because it may be easy for small mice to slip in through the crack. So the crack of the door, or the door or the food warehouse is placed a 0.6m high mouse plate. The pipeline holes are the most forgettable place. Many kitchens will be rectified and reformed , so some equipment will be moved. At this time the connection of the drain will be cut which most people may forget to block, or sometimes they just simply use newspapers or cloth to block, which is useless. The pipeline holes should be sealed completely and the gap shall not exceed 6mm.

 

Thirdly, remove rats' food. It is easy to find rats in restaurants mainly because of the delicious food. Without proper garbage disposal, condiments that are not well preserved, food scrapes on the floor and trash in the dustbin can be a good meal for rats. All food and seasoning must be kept in the boxes, containers or be sealed to prevent rats from stealing food. Food residue should be removed from the kitchen cabinet surface and kitchen floor. We are supposed to do the kitchen waste disposal everyday, rather than leave the garbage overnight. But how to do waste disposal easily? We can install a food waste disposer with a sink grinder installed below the sink which grind all the food waste. Value has devoted to the development of embedded intelligent garbage processor. The Value waste disposer provides a way of cheap waste removal. This kind of fixing garbage disposal bring us much convenience and save much of our time. And it is also a good way to do broken garbage disposal, which helps to protect the environment of our common homeland.