Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) at Agri Star Meat & Poultry Llc. have risen 62% since 2010 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Agri Star Meat & Poultry Llc.
Total reported releases 553k lb held roughly steady year over year (-4%). Total releases concentrations are up 61% since 2010.
220 W ST, Postville, Iowa · 311615 · Food · operated by Lauridsen Group INC
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Notable Signals
Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Agri Star Meat & Poultry Llc. have risen 61% since 2010 (through 2024).
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) concentrations are up 62% since 2010.
Peracetic acid
Peracetic acid concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Allamakee County County, IA (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 14,046. Why we surface this →
11.6%
Low-income
10.9%
People of color
6.1%
Under age 5
22.7%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year), county-level fallback. Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.