Milk And Money: Norfolk Dairy Plant Racked Up Hundreds Of Violations. The City Finally Had Enough.

NORFOLK — Michael’s Cantina has been serving Tex-Mex food to the residents here for more than 30 years. Softball trophies crowd the top of a dresser in a dining room, old signs line the walls and regulars visit multiple times a week. Some of the employees have worked at the restaurant for decades.

It feels timeless, except for an unwelcome newcomer: the stench.

For the past two years, the restaurant and nearby residents have been bothered by the stink, which owner Heath Henery describes as a “sewer smell with almost a vomit smell.”

He blames the odor on the dairy processing plant across the street, a company long known as Milk Specialties Global that recently rebranded as Actus Nutrition. Actus makes milk and whey protein ingredients at processing plants around the country, and recently