Ammonia
Ammonia releases at Tyson Fresh Meats Inc-Perry fell from 19k lb to 1k lb (92% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc-Perry
Total reported releases 198k lb fell sharply year over year (-53%). Total releases concentrations have fallen 49% since 2010.
13500 I CT, Perry, Iowa · 311611 · Food · operated by Tyson Foods INC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) releases at Tyson Fresh Meats Inc-Perry fell from 399k lb to 196k lb (51% lower) between 2023 and 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 have fallen 49% since 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (4 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 7,893. Why we surface this →
37.5%
Low-income
37.6%
People of color
6.7%
Under age 5
17.6%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). 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.