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By Rod Addy - Published: 30 June, 2008

Processors are set to save hours of time and effort as Rentokil rolls out its online, real-time pest control system, PestNetOnline.

Historically, pest control has mainly been managed through painstaking log book entries and site visits. However, PestNet remotely monitors pest activity via links to on-site detection devices and updates data in real time.

The software can also be set to automatically analyse activity and create graphs and reports covering prescribed time periods.

The pilot programme has been under development for five years and has been tested by processors including a major UK brewer and several major UK drinks, dry goods and ready meals manufacturers. The software has been developed in consultation with trade bodies such as the British Retail Consortium and the Federation of Bakers.

Rentokil said there was a nominal charge involved in switching to the service over and above the standard service packages it offers. Customers are switching to the new system this week.

“Say you have responsibility for 20 sites,” said Rentokil marketing manager Julie Birch. “You can look at information for any of those sites online and can analyse trends over the past year. You can set up reports targeting certain sites and have that information delivered via PDF or Excel spreadsheets directly to your email.

“It’s a leap forward in pest control. You don’t have to go around looking at report books for every site. The feedback from users has been very positive in terms of the amount of information they can get with very little effort on their part.”

For more information, log on to http://www.rentokil.co.uk or call Rentokil’s national customer service team on 0800 917 1984

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India’s Andaman Islands was hit by a 6.7-magnitude earthquake on Friday, June 27 at 5:40pm.  But officials and police said that there were no immediate reports of deaths or loss of property.

The quake-hit area was about 75 miles southwest of Port Blair, the capital of Andaman, causing the residents to panic.  According to the police in the Andamans, no one was injured, and no property was damaged.

The Indian Meteorological Department described the quake as moderate, while the Japan Meteorological Agency said there was “a very small possibility of a destructive local tsunami in the Indian Ocean.”  A “local tsunami alert” was issued for the Andamans by the Indian Tsunami Warning System, set up after the 2004 tsunami that killed about 10,000 people in India.

“We have issued a local alert in the Andamans. But I don’t think there is any point to get panicky,” said a senior seismologist with the India Meteorological Department (IMD). “We have received information about tremors being felt in the Andamans and in parts of Chennai.”

A quake of 8 or more on the Richter scale can potentially generate a tsunami, but the IMD was not taking the current tremor lightly even though it measured less than 8.

Located some 1,400 kilometers southeast of India’s mainland, the Andaman and Nicobar territories comprise more than 500 islands. Approximately 350,000 people live on 30-to-40 of the islands. The tiny islands are so close to the epicenter of the massive Asian earthquake, that the tsunami hit them almost immediately.

In December 2004 the islands were attacked by a huge tsunami triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia.  Coastal areas of the Andamans were devastated, and scores of people were killed.

As a result of the earthquake in December 2004, South and Middle Andaman Islands are now 2m lower than they were previously – so the water in these areas is now 2m deeper than charted.

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