Commercial Pest Control in Sacramento, CA

How commercial pest control works

A commercial site is different from a house: more doors, more deliveries, more waste, and usually a kitchen or a stockroom that is warm and has water.

The work is a scheduled perimeter and interior program, not callouts.

Talk to the office about the site, Monday to Saturday, 7am to 6pm. We will go through what it needs.

Food businesses in Sacramento County

For a restaurant or a market, the standard is written into state law. Section 114259.1 of the California Health and Safety Code says the premises of each food facility shall be kept free of vermin.

In Sacramento County, the Environmental Management Department Food Protection Program enforces that code. It permits and inspects restaurants, bars, markets and bakeries. The Program also permits and inspects school cafeterias, mini-marts and mobile food vendors, incorporated cities included.

Those inspections end in a color-coded placard at the entrance. Green means pass, yellow means a conditional pass and red means closed.

The County also looks into complaints about food facilities. It publishes a list of recent closures, updated weekly.

The same chapter goes further. Section 114259 says a food facility must be built, equipped, maintained and run so that vermin cannot get in or live there. Vermin includes rodents and insects.

Section 114259.3 says an insect control device that electrocutes or stuns flying insects has to keep them inside the device. It also cannot hang over a food or utensil handling area.

The County also posts short videos on getting a green placard. They come in English, Spanish, Cantonese and Vietnamese. You can look up inspection results by business name or zip code.

Which pests turn up at commercial sites

The UC Statewide IPM Program Pest Notes on rats describe Norway rats foraging anywhere from 100 to 500 feet from the nest each night. The Norway rats live off whatever food is easy. That includes waste around commercial dumpsters.

House mice turn up in food facilities and restaurants. They chew wiring. They get under a gap a quarter inch tall.

Ants move into restaurants, offices, hospitals and warehouses wherever they find food and water. On a commercial walk, the list includes the bins, the dumpster pad, the delivery door and anywhere water sits near the kitchen.

For cockroaches, the UC IPM Pest Notes on cockroaches draw a line between two groups. The American cockroach lives outdoors and wanders in. The German and brownbanded cockroaches live and breed entirely indoors.

An adult German cockroach can hide in a crack a sixteenth of an inch wide.