Pest control software for food processing accounts
Food plants are audited on their pest management program: where every device is, what was found at each visit, how activity is trending, and what was done about it. Rupipest records all of that at the device level and gives the plant's QA team a portal to pull it for the audit.
What these accounts expect from you
- A current device map with every station located
- Service records for each visit, device by device
- Trend analysis of pest activity over time
- Corrective actions documented when activity crosses a threshold
- Pesticide application records and product documents (SDS)
- Certificates kept current
How Rupipest covers it
Commercial plan recommended: client portal, offline mode and advanced reports included.
As reported by Rupipest customers. Rupipest is not a certification body.
When the information chain breaks: the 2026 Cyclospora outbreak
In the summer of 2026, a Cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce from a processor in central Mexico made 12,883 people sick in 21 states. According to CDC, at the peak of the outbreak, before the recall, more than 1,000 infections occurred in a single day.
Shares in the parent company of a major U.S. fast-food chain linked to the outbreak fell 9% between July 7 and July 16, 2026, and kept falling the next day. Two weeks later, the company reported that the chain's U.S. same-store sales were down 2% so far in the quarter, and that the peak impact came on July 18. On July 23, visits to its restaurants were 20.8% below the average for that weekday, according to Placer.ai data.
Why it took so long to see
Most of the damage happened while information was still moving. CDC explains that it can take up to six weeks after symptoms start for a case to be reported, and there is no whole genome sequencing to match Cyclospora to a contaminated product. The lettuce went from farms to a processing plant, then to distributors, restaurants and stores in more than 30 states, and not every location of the same restaurant chain received it from the same supplier. Investigators had to rebuild that path from each company's records.
Even after inspecting the farms and the plant, FDA found Cyclospora in the processing plant's wastewater and in a grower's drainage ditch, but stated that there was not enough evidence to conclusively determine how contamination occurred.
The lesson for your plant's pest program
Cyclospora is not a pest problem. The lesson is about records: when an investigator, an auditor or your own customer asks what happened in an area on a given date, the answer has to come out in minutes, not after weeks of searching through binders and email.
Every Rupipest service report records, automatically:
- Client, plant and address, with a unique report ID
- Contract, treatments applied and areas covered
- Service start and end, timestamped, and the technicians on site
- Captures by pest, control strategy and device, with the percentage of devices affected
- Each capture placed on the plant's floor plan, by device and area
- Distribution of activity by area, so a hot spot is visible at a glance
The plant's QA team pulls any of it from the client portal, without calling you.
Figures from the final CDC outbreak notice (September 11, 2026) and the FDA investigation (October 2, 2026), which also report two deaths. Market and sales figures as reported by Axios (July 17, 2026) and Reuters (July 30, 2026). Rupipest documents pest management programs; it does not trace produce or prevent foodborne illness.
Device-level proof
Technicians scan each station's QR code on the floor plan and record activity, captures, photos and corrective actions.
Technician app →
Trends and thresholds
Activity by device, area or whole plant, with heat maps, tolerance thresholds and year-over-year comparison.
Trend reports →
The QA manager's login
Reports, certificates, schedules and SDS in one portal, ready the morning of an audit.
Client portal →
Application records
Product, EPA registration number, active ingredient, dilution, target pest, site, applicator and license on every application.
Application records →Questions
Is Rupipest certified by AIB, SQF or BRCGS?
No. Rupipest is software, not a certification body. Rupipest customers report passing audits under these standards with Rupipest reports.
Can the plant's QA team see reports without calling us?
Yes. The client portal, on Commercial and Enterprise plans, gives them every report, certificate and schedule.
See it on a setup like yours
A 30-minute demo with Freddy Muro, Rupipest's founder, 9am–9pm Peru time.
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