The hospitality industry has been in the news a lot this past year – but unfortunately not for the right reasons. The spread of bed bugs is out of control and almost every day there is a news about bed bugs being found in common places like hotels, motels, libraries, schools, hospitals and apartment complexes. And once you’ve been labeled as a place that has bed bugs, it’s very hard to recover from the bad publicity. In terms of the hospitality industry, once inside a hotel or hostel bed bugs spread rapidly from room to room – through pipes, vacuum cleaners, on clothing and luggage. In a hotel, bed bugs can spread to neighboring rooms, since guests often move from room to room.

For this reason, it’s important to have a pest control system in place in order to minimize infestations and reduce risk. Now the question is do you have procedures in place to deal with bed bugs?

Rest Assured MC is Canada’s leading provider of commercial non-toxic bed bug product supplier. What we know is that pesticides are not as reliable as you think. According to the Journal of American Medicine*, your bed bug response plan should include an integrated approach and a variety of products to destroy eggs. And, as we wrote about in our post titled, “Bed Bug Pesticides Make Some People Sick” pesticides are also making some people sick – so it’s important to have an alternative solution.

Rest Assured MC supplies the most advanced, non-toxic effective products to detect, manage and treat infestations. Here is what we recommend:

1. Detect infestations quickly – Encasements, a great early detection tool**. While there are a lot of mattress and pillow encasements available, not all are effective. Bugstop mattress covers are 100% lab certified and it’s tight knit fabric and specially designed zipper and patch are guaranteed to keep bed bugs out.
2. Train staff to recognize the signs of bed bugs - We carry detection and prevention tools help you monitor activity 365 days a year.
3. Steam cleaning, Vacuuming - Vapor Dry Steam Cleaning is a safe, non-toxic, chemical free way to  eradicate bed bugs – hot dry steam kills bed bugs and their eggs on contact (and sanitizes the room).
4. Cryonite® freezing - A 100% organic method using carbon dioxide kills bugs dead without leaving residue or require post treatment work.
   

We hope that this post has provided you with some information and action plans on how to prepare your business on how to fight against bed bugs in the hospitality industry. Also, to request a quote for Cryonite – Click here!

* (JAMA 301:13; April 2009)
** (52% of U.S. pest control firms routinely utilize bedding encasements. (Potter, Romero & Haynes, 2008)

Happy Friday!

So people always ask me what are the benefits of using cryonite over insecticides to kill bed bugs. I have written many blog posts on the benefits and why cryonite should be the preferred method,  but today Reuters released an articled titled, “Bed bug pesticides make some people ill,” and it caught my attention. Below please find a short expert of the article that I want to share:

“The Center for Disease Control released a report saying that from 2003 to 2010, 111 people were sickened and one died from bed bug insecticide, the government agency reported in a study that is the first of its kind in the country. Nearly three quarters of the illnesses occurred from 2008 to 2010 as the bed bug population in the United States increased. Pesticide-related illnesses occurred in seven states: California, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, New York, Texas and Washington. Some 81 percent of cases were not severe. New York City, where there were increasing reports of bed bug infestations, had the largest number of cases at 58 percent. Nationwide, 93 percent of the cases were in private homes, the study found. Although the CDC said there have not been enough cases of serious illness to suggest a large public health burden, the numbers might continue to increase as bed bugs become more resistant to common pesticides.”

As we have seen in the news, the spread of bed bugs is on the rise and it is important that we are effectively treating outbreaks from a safety standpoint. As reported in the article, there is a rise in pest-related illnesses, which means that there is room in the pest control industry to explore new ways to treat bed bug outbreaks.

For the many other reasons that I have previously blogged about, pest-related illnesses are yet another reason why I recommend that pest control companies use cryonite to treat bed bug outbreaks as it is chemical-free and save to use in all types of environments.

If you need more information, please feel free to give us a call at 1-866-613-9802 or request a quote today!