Protecting Consumers with Structural Pest Control Online Reporting
Protecting Consumers with Structural Pest Control Online Reporting
Baton Rouge, LA (November 5, 2012) - The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) is utilizing a new tool to help protect consumers. The licensee or permittee for structural pest control companies must report monthly to LDAF all contracts for post construction and pre-treatment termite work performed. The benefits of the new reporting system are two fold. It is an added convenience for pest control companies and the LDAF because the new online system will make this reporting more timely and efficient in that payment can be made electronically. LDAF will then use the online eradication, wood destroying insect and termite perimeter application reports to monitor the work conducted by the pest control agents.
“While most pest control companies do an excellent job and are professional, it is our job to ensure that consumers who hire pest control companies to conduct wood destroying insect and termite control inspections are getting what they pay for and that the work is done properly,” said LDAF Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M. “This new tool will allow the LDAF easier access to monitor the work that is being performed.”
The LDAF is responsible for administering many of the programs and enforcing the laws, rules and regulations that impact every aspect of the state’s agriculture and forestry industries, including structural pest control.
Strain added, “As always, when you are having any kind of pesticide applied in or around your home or business, be sure you hire a licensed or certified pest control operator. You may call the LDAF at 225-925-4578 to verify the person you want to hire is licensed or certified. This protects you, your family and pets, your home and your business.”
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