Californian NIMBY-ness strikes again.
> a request from the southern California city of Irwindale to close the hot sauce’s factory because of complaints over smell from neighbors.
> a request from the southern California city of Irwindale to close the hot sauce’s factory because of complaints over smell from neighbors.
To quote the LA Times: "...the hot sauce’s production facilities are, residents are complaining of burning eyes, irritated throats and headaches caused by a powerful, painful odor that the city says appears to be emanating from the factory during production."
Yes, people actually do get watery eyes from cutting onions. It's not just that they are sad and blaming it on the onions out of shame.
At what part per million does the factory actually affect the surrounding atmosphere?
Without any idea at all about these numbers your intuition is worthless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_student_poisoning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_West_Bank_fainting_epidemi...
The AQMD is one of the shadiest governmental agencies there is - apparently their main function is to demand enough shakedown money from SoCal businesses so they leave town.
See http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-1110-sriracha-20131110,0,..., also posted in another comment on this thread.
If Sriracha is really causing these symptoms, wouldn't they be most prevalent in people who work at the actual factory in question? Why is there no anecdotal evidence of their loss of quality of life?
Part of this is an ever moving, never quite enough demand for "actual studies" and evidence. If you provide an epidemiology study, they'll demand clinical trials. Clinical trials? Not generalizable, bring on the epidemiology. But you haven't done a proper toxicology study....