WEST WYOMING, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) — Earlier this year, FOX56 reported on a citrus smell that raised concerns for many Wyoming and West Wyoming residents who have now filed quality of life ordinances against KB Crash Creations, the company neighbors say is responsible for the odor.

“I can’t even open my windows, and my children can’t even spend five minutes outside without their eyes bothering them and their lungs bothering them,” said one Wyoming resident, who asked to remain anonymous.

KB Crash Creations is a company manufacturing kratom extract, and they say the citrus odor is a direct result of the waste created during their extraction process, which they call “food sludge.”

“They have what’s called D-Limonene, and that process is used in a manufacturing process. It produces Kratom which is a derivative of that process,” said Michael McCarrie, one of the attorney’s representing KB Crash Creations.

Kratom is listed as a “Drug and Chemical of Concern,” according to the Drug Enforcement Administration and is illegal in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin, and is regulated in another nine states, although KB Crash Creations’ attorney, Michael McCarrie, claims the facility poses no threat to the public, and representatives from the company say the product they produce has a “broad therapeutic index.’”

“They have to prove that there is significant harm, and there isn’t,” said McCarrie.

“Is the standard a smell standard? Because if it is, if someone owns a bakery and the town doesn’t like it, they’re gone,” said McCarrie.

McCarrie claims neighborhood concerns have been mitigated, and he hopes the matter settles out of court with a conversation between the police chief and state officials.

“Our clients want to be good neighbors, and we believe they have been good neighbors. If you take a look at the facility there are three three and a half ton scrubbers that scrub the air that comes out of that building and we have seven inside,” he said.”

Despite this, residents claim they feel adverse effects from the smell, with one resident seeking medical testing for his children before the next hearing, to use in testimony.

“We’ll have more evidence, and we’ll have more substantial cons of this being in the air especially with the baseball field being less than 100 yards from this place,” said the Wyoming resident, who lives a few homes away from the facility.

The case is currently being reassigned to a presidential judge after one of the attorneys for KB Crash Creation argued the judge was partial.

FOX56 will have more updates on this story as it develops.