A Tennessee man has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for urinating on a Kellogg’s cereal conveyor belt.
The US attorney’s office in Memphis says 49-year-old Gregory Stanton was sentenced Friday in federal court. Mr Stanton pleaded guilty in November to tampering with consumer products.
The urination took place at a Kellogg’s facility in Memphis, Tennessee facility in 2014. A graphic video of the incident was uploaded onto WorldStarHipHop in 2016.
Law enforcement and the Food & Drug Administration investigated the situation.
“Americans expect and deserve the highest standards of food safety and wholesomeness, and the integrity of the US food supply is too important to be thwarted by the illicit acts of any individual,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge H Peter Kuehl, FDA Office of Criminal Investigations, Miami Field Office in a statement to WREG Memphis on the sentencing.
“FDA remains fully committed to the vigorous prosecution of criminals who tamper with or taint the U.S. food supply in any manner,” he added.
According to an indictment, the video shows Mr Stanton, who was a contract worker at the Kellogg’s plant in April, 2014, urinating into a bucket and dumping the contents into the Raisin Bran production line.
According to WREG Memphis, the video was shot during a period in which the company and its workers union were engaged in a dispute, and those employees involved were “locked out.”
The AP reports that Mr Stanton also recorded himself urinating into a production line a month after the first video was taken.
At the time of the video reveal, Kellogg’s said in a statement that “Rice Krispies Treats, Rice Krispies Treats cereal and puffed rice cake products” were potentially affected by the incident.
In a statement, Kellogg’s said it is pleased Stanton was “brought to justice.”
