ProFume Lable Update August 2025

August 2025 ProFume Label Update

Breaking news: Pet Food has now been added to the ProFume label. It is more difficult to become a veterinarian than a Medical Doctor in the US. Which highlights the deep personal relationship between humans and our feathered, scaled, finned, and fur-covered friends. In the US this year consumers will spend around $147 billion on their pets. By nature, dry pet food like kibble has always been plagued by stored product pests. The high oil and carbohydrate content in combination with warm climate-controlled storage warehouses are optimal breeding grounds for insects like Indianmeal moth Plodia interpunctella, Cigarette Beetle Lasioderma serricorne, and Warehouse beetle Trogoderma variabile. Warehouse beetle larvae have small hairs called setae that can detach and cause irritation and illness in pets’ digestive systems. Other pests like Flour beetle Tribolium castaneum & confusum, and Red-legged ham beetle Necrobia rufipes to name a few can lead to product spoilage and customer complaints. In the past, fumigation treatments conducted on petfood manufacturing and handling facilities were either required to remove infested products, treat with Phosphine, or when product is impractical to remove then the structure containing pet food could be treated.

Comment from the manufacturer:

“COMMODITIES THAT CAN BE FUMIGATED

The pet food (non-food) commodities that may be fumigated with ProFume include:

Packaged and unpackaged dry pet food at pet food manufacturing, pet food production and pet food storage facilities.”

This manual update enables pest management professionals that work with pet food manufacturing facilities to use the same product for every step of the manufacturing process, from the production line to the warehouse. More specifically, this update supports the addition of packaged and unpackaged dry pet food, which is categorized by the EPA as a non-food, indoor-site use. Therefore, pet food can be fumigated with ProFume so long as it is not intended for consumption by animals grown or bred for human consumption.

This is a big win for brand protection and the safe preservation of high quality and high valued pet food. Now pest management professionals and their customers alike can make data-based decisions quicker to eliminate pest infestations normal sanitation and ULV treatments cannot control.