Miller Magazine Issue: 113 May 2019

61 INTERVIEW MAY 2019 Being a global company specialized in health and nut- rition related life sciences, Bayer contributes to finding solutions to important problems of our time with its innovative products. The company provides significant contributions to the supply of reliable high-quality food, feed, and plant-based raw materials and continues its R&D studies. Speaking to Miller Magazine, Serdar Azi- ret, Bayer Türk Chemical Industry Marketing Manager, said that the company continues its works in order to be beneficial to humanity with their products and ser- vices. He talked about Bayer’s works in Environmental Health and answered many questions about pest control for human health, things to be done for food safety, me- asurements to prevent product loss in warehouses and existing product losses, and TMO’s effort for licensed warehouse. The following is an interview with Serdar Aziret, Mar- keting Manager of Bayer. Mr. Aziret, can we have informa- tion about Bayer’s Environmental Health Business Unit? As Bayer Environmental Health, we develop solutions to improve and protect environmental and hu- man health. We can say that our focus is to fight against vectors car- rying disease. We find integrated vector challenge solutions to fight against insect pests. We contribute to the sustainability of the world by maintaining and improving hu- man health, hygiene, and safety. We have an approach that extends from the whole to the individual. As we believe that we can serve human health when the conditions surrounding the individual become healthier in the world, we say He- alth from Environment to Human. And for all points in the external surrounding, we pro- vide pest control solutions for all areas ranging from farms to plazas, residences, industrial facilities, parks, gardens, and enterprises. In order to fight against dise- ases threatening and complicating human life and to- tally eliminate all these diseases, we use vector control solutions. Thanks to pest control management that we have developed, we protect public health and hygiene while we increase food safety. FOOD SAFETY HAS A CRITICAL IMPORTANCE When speaking of food safety, what kind of soluti- ons do you provide for the food industry? The Bayer Environmental Health Business Unit pays great attention to the food industry. The food safety and the protection of food storing areas against pest have critical importance for enterprises for economic sustainability and also for the individual’s health. As Bayer Environmental Health, we regularly explain the integrated pest control methods to our business partners in the food industry. Thus, we increase the level of information of both institutions and individu- als about chemical and physical control methods. We also contribute to preventing economic losses. We provide efficient solutions in rodent control in addi- tion to pest and rhubarb fight for the food industry and particularly companies in Horeca. When we look at the factory floor, meaning storages in which crops are stored, we develop solutions to keep organisms that we name as warehouse pests under control. As Bayer, you stress the im- portance of pest control in sto- red grains. Could you explain this a little more? What kind of problems exists in grain storing? If I were to talk about the place where foods are cultiva- ted, which are arable fields, I would like to say that the plant protection struggle in order to get high yields does not start and end only in the field. Sto- red crops should be protected against pests after the harvest. When the warehouse pests con- taminate a product, they cause direct quantitative losses. When this contamination is intensi- fied, molding, heat, and put- refaction occur. Based on the condition of the environment, these pests can cause a loss of between 10 and 30 percent in crops. Because of residue and dirt they left on products, the product quality diminishes which may cause economic loss as well. Some warehouse pests directly attack the germs and prevent the germ from germinating. This can cau- se the loss of the protein value of the grain. On the ot- her hand, consuming products containing warehouse