General Mills plant in Iowa a roof fire,
General Mills facility in Covington, Georgia where a small plane crashed into the plant.
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Salinas, California Taylor Farms California Foodservice
50,000 pounds of food were lost to a fire at the Maricopa Food Pantry
Rio Fresh onion packing facility in San Juan, Texas
New Hampshire's East Conway Beef and Pork slaughterhouse had a major fire
Penobscot McCrum potato processing plant in Belfast, Maine.
Hot Pockets at a Nestle plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Walmart fulfillment center, Plainfield, Indiana.
Shearer’s Foods potato chip plant in northeast Oregon.
Wisconsin River Meats site in Mauston.
Cargill-Nutrena plant in Lecompte, Louisiana.
A poultry processing plant in Hamilton, Ontario
A food processing plant in San Antonio, Texas.
Maid-Rite Steak Company meat processing plant in Scott Township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
JVS USA beef processing plant in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Patak Meat Products in Cobb County, Georgia.
Tyson Foods River Valley Ingredients rendering plant in Hanceville, Alabama.
Kellogg's plant in Memphis, Tennessee.
Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Monmouth, Illinois.
Deli Star meat processing plant in Fayetteville, Illinois
But that fact hasn’t stopped rumors from swirling online claiming that there’s been a suspicious increase and suggesting that there may be a plan to disrupt the food supply.
Data on fire incidents doesn’t support the claim.
“There have been approximately 20 fires in U.S. food processing facilities in the first 4 months of 2022, which is not extreme at all and does not signal anything out of the ordinary,” NFPA spokeswoman Susan McKelvey told us."
Each fire is discussed in the rest of the story which you can find at:
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/05/unfounded-claims-about-frequency-and-causes-of-food-plant-fires/
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