Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) releases at Berner Cheese Corp rose from 43k lb to 67k lb between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Berner Cheese Corp
Total reported releases 67k lb rose sharply year over year (+57%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
2034 E FACTORY RD, Dakota, Illinois · 311513 · Food · operated by Berner Food & Beverage INC
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Notable Signals
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 more than doubled since 2017.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Stephenson County County, IL (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 44,482. Why we surface this →
13.3%
Low-income
19.0%
People of color
5.4%
Under age 5
23.7%
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.