As part of the food safety and quality assurance team, you know how important the third-party and in-house auditing scores are to your organization in verifying, maintaining and improving the plant’s sanitation, GMP and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems. It follows that it is important that plant managers and their PMPs know exactly what the rules are when it comes to the pest management aspect of the sanitation program. However, at this point, there are no rules, so at the recommendation of its member PMPs, the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) recently began to build a coalition of experts from PMP companies, third-party audit firms, trade organizations and food companies to address the issue. With this task force in place, NPMA aims to provide solutions to this challenge