M&M Environmental Quoted in the NY Daily News

Today's Queens section of the New York Daily News questions the latest update for the on-going battle between workers and bed bugs in their office environment in the Long Island City Access-A-Ride location. The writer, Joseph Kemp, has been following this story for quite some time and reported last year that this office's bed bug problem has been persisting since all the way back to the summer of 2008.

Kemp consulted with our M&M Environmental technical director, Tim Wong, for today's article to help determine whether or not the action of the exterminators that NYC Transit hired could be considered adequate. Apparently, after identifying that bed bugs were still present in the office, the company waited a a longer than recommended amount of time before beginning their extermination. The article reads,

Waiting a week to begin killing the bedbugs after canines tracked their location was a major flaw, said Timothy Wong, a pest control technical director at M&M Environmental.

"It must be treated 24 to 48 hours after the dogs come in," he said, "especially with a commercial premises like this where there's heavy traffic, a lot of electrical equipment and no control of the environment."

It's very important to act quickly and efficiently once presence of bed bugs have been identified, regardless of whether it is in a home or an office. This way the solution of the problem being eradicated will happen sooner and not later.