An industrial bakery has been fined $32,512 for releasing excessive levels of volatile organic compounds into the air at its Roanoke plant.
Wholesome Harvest Baking, located in the Roanoke Centre for Industry and Technology, agreed to the penalty in a recent citation from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
In June 2018, the company notified DEQ that it had operated one of its production lines for a total of 48 hours over seven days while it was disconnected from a regenerative thermal oxidizer, which is used to treat industrial exhaust.
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