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Food Safety / concern

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House Fly
A gray, four-striped filth fly that breeds in manure, garbage, and decaying matter and contaminates food and surfaces by carrying germs on its body and in its saliva and droppings.
Norway Rat
A large, stocky burrowing rodent that nests at ground level in and around buildings, contaminates food, gnaws structures, and can carry diseases that affect people.
Pharaoh Ant
A tiny pale-yellow to reddish-brown ant that nests in warm, hidden voids inside heated buildings, forms sprawling multi-queen colonies, and is both the hardest household ant to control and a documented contamination concern in hospitals.