Posted on 11/27/2013 1:44:11 PM PST by barmag25
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — The Southern California maker of a popular hot sauce has been ordered to cease operations that have allegedly emitted harmful odors into the surrounding community, after residents’ complaints of health problems prompted a lawsuit.
A state court judge issued a decision late Tuesday finding that Huy Fong Foods Inc., the manufacturer of cult-favorite Sriracha “Rooster Sauce” and other chili sauce products, must “make changes in its site operations reducing odors and the potential for odors” at its Irwindale, Calif., factory. The injunction is slated to take effect on Dec. 9.
Bloomberg Enlarge Image The company, which owns two facilities in the Los Angeles area, won’t be forced to completely shut down operations — which includes bottling its sauces — according to the judge’s order.
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Sriracha: Nectar of the gods.
One day soon there will be NO manufacturing jobs in California.
White Castle after dinner emissions will soon be CARB and EPA regulated.
Right on...even your pickiest hot sauce snob wouldn’t be caught without a bottle of Sriracha sitting in his collection...
When I lived in Hyde Park, Chicago on Kenwood and 53rd, there were competing aromas from Harold’s Chicken Shack and Ribs’n’Bibs. I loved it. If a dense urban environment can have that, why not a spot in NoCal?
I mean SoCal.
Any ‘harmful odors’ were probably carried into the area on a north wind out of Sacramento...
Amen. Now go grab a couple of bottles, price is fixing to go UP
Indeed. The best.
You won’t regret it.
I wonder how many Governors have gave this company a call with an invite for moving operations out of California and into their state?
About a month ago a city councilman in Denton, Texas sent a letter to the owners asking them to consider moving there.
“A Huy Fong Foods representative told NBC DFW that the company is aware of Roden’s offer, but is not commenting at this time.”
I bet Sriracha was there long before the olfactorily offended built their abodes.
I’m not sure I’d want the plant near my house.
The Judge wasn’t sure about the health issues, but ‘acknowledged that the odors “appear as extremely annoying, irritating, and offensive to the senses” and thus constituted a public nuisance.’
I think it depends which was first, the processing plant or the residential houses. I wouldn’t want someone to build a plant near my house. But if the complainants built their houses near an existing plant, then it should have been tough luck on them.
You are correct! The plant was built in the middle of nowhere, then cheap housing was brought in. It’s like the people who move near an old airport like Cleveland Hopkins, and then complain about the noise.
Decades ago in the Pittsburgh East End there was a Nabisco plant. They mostly made crackers. The baking aroma wafted through several blocks. It was great!
IIRC people complained. Then there were labor problems. Eventually the plant was turned over to the union who then baked snack crackers.
But it closed nonetheless.
Now it’s a crappy mall or something.
In a related story my grandfather was an engineer for Shoen Steel Wheel making railroad wheels and trucks.
We lived quite far from the plant but the slag and steel trains rolled right through our town often at night.
It shook our house.
My grandmother and other women in the area...a bedrooom, tennis community for the Mellons, Carnegies, Hillmans and such...complained.
My grand dad told them all in no uncertaun terms to shut up. The sound of the trains was the sound of prosperity, men working and supporting their families.
Bet the owners are libs.
The sound of the trains was the sound of prosperity, men working and supporting their families.”
Newcomers to Texas complain about the smell of the refineries. We tell them it’s the smell of money flowing into the economy.
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