Storage of dry food items such as flour, sugar, pulses, rice and canned foods.

Pests that may become a problem in food technology rooms and storage areas include rodents: mice and rats; birds: pigeons and sparrows; insects and other arthropods: houseflies, wasps, ants, cockroaches, moths, silverfish, meal and bacon beetles, flour mites and weevils.

The use of hand-held kitchen equipment which comes in several sizes from small battery-powered whisks to machines which really need a stand and table top blenders and smoothie makers

The use of table-top mixing machines with liquidising and mincing accessories.