Major Illinois Food Plant To Close Due To Massive Product Recalls

If you've been paying attention, we've seen lots and lots of product recalls over the last few years. Normally, after a few months spent getting the recalled product or products off of store shelves and replaced with items that don't require a recall, things go back to normal.

Like I said, that's normally what happens.

But, when there have been recalls over the last year on nearly 60 products produced at one plant, sometimes things just can't and don't go back to normal for the plant that produces those items and the people who make them. The plant gets shuttered and the employees get downsized, fired, sacked, laid-off, and/or terminated...and that's what has happened here in Illinois.

After 55 Years Of Producing Products Here In Illinois, A Major Food Plant Has Closed, And 510 Jobs Have Gone With It

The Illinois city that this is taking place in is Danville, and the company that has closed the doors on a plant that has been long-time maker of high-demand products is this one:

After Another Product Recall In December Of 2023, Quaker Oats "Paused" Production At The Danville Facility, Then Decided After A Review To Close The Plant For Good

In their recent statement, Quaker Oats announced that the plant review showed that the needed changes and improvements needed to go forward at the Danville plant would force Quaker to close the plant for an extended period of time, "In order to continue the timely delivery of Quaker products trusted by consumers since 1877, we determined production would need to permanently shift to other facilities."

In other words, "we're shutting it down."

The Root Of Quaker's Problems Go Back To The Recalls From December Of Last Year, And Another Recall In January Of This Year

Those recalls involved worries of salmonella contamination, with over 60 products made at the Danville plant being included in the December recall. Then, in January, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came out with an extension of the recall.

The Quaker recall in January was even wider in scope, according to TastingTable.com, where they say that it was "covering not only select Quaker Chewy Granola Bars but an array of cereals, cereal bars, protein bars, snack boxes, and select snack mixes. In a statement to The News-Gazette in Illinois, Quaker tied the Danville production facility closure to the recalls."

The official closing date of the Quaker Oats Danville plant is June 8th, but production has already stopped.