Ammonia
Ammonia releases at Sanderson Farms St. Pauls Processing rose from 10k lb to 20k lb (2.0×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Sanderson Farms St. Pauls Processing
Total reported releases 112k lb fell meaningfully year over year (-24%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2017.
2076 NC HIGHWAY 20 W, Saint Pauls, North Carolina · 311615 · Food · operated by Sanderson Farms LLC
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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.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations are up 61% since 2018.
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide concentrations are up 14% since 2018.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (3 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 3,047. Why we surface this →
54.5%
Low-income
64.0%
People of color
6.1%
Under age 5
18.7%
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.