FDA investigating graphic video linked to Kellogg factory
Source: Reuters
Markets | Mon Mar 14, 2016 1:02pm EDT
FDA investigating graphic video linked to Kellogg factory
March 14
Breakfast cereals maker Kellogg Co said federal regulators are conducting a criminal investigation of a video that surfaced on Friday showing a man filming himself urinating on one of its factory assembly lines.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigation is leading the probe into the video, which was recorded in 2014, company spokeswoman Kris Charles told Reuters in an email on Monday.
The video, uploaded on the website World Star Hip Hop on Friday, shows the man urinating on an assembly line and then panning to a sign with the company's logo.
The company "immediately alerted law enforcement authorities and regulators", after learning of the video on Friday, Charles said. Kellogg is also conducting an internal investigation.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/kellogg-probe-idUSL3N16M4EW
I've done a lot of stupid things in my life, things that I'm glad no one kept a record of. I've never done anything like this. I can't imagine why anyone who had done this would want to post a record of it online.
Good luck conjuring up any sympathy.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(56,897 posts)Also, if it is for real, what other lines was he working on during other shifts, and did he do this on those lines too?
Seeing that the only existing video is one of a Rick Krispies line is not much of a relief, so to speak.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)It just seemed like an awful lot of pee.
snort
(2,334 posts)Now I'm pissed off!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,854 posts)JoeyT
(6,785 posts)The few times I've ever been in food grade facilities as a contractor, they stayed so far up my ass they know more about my prostate than me and my doctor put together.
Which is as it should be, but it should be that way all the time.
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Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)WheelWalker
(8,943 posts)TheDormouse
(1,168 posts)They're obsessed with determining the race of the culprit and blaming it on a black guy--as if his being black somehow explains it or something.
TheDormouse
(1,168 posts)a video recording of the shoes he was wearing, and can subpoena the website the video was uploaded to to get his IP address and possibly metadata that might yield info about the kind of phone used to make the recording.
MADem
(135,425 posts)The affected products would all be past their sell-by date:
The products that could have been potentially impacted include Rice Krispies Treats, granola clusters used in some products and puffed rice treats that Kellogg no longer makes.
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C Moon
(12,188 posts)WheelWalker
(8,943 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)But seriously. As bad as this is, the real reason people shouldn't buy Kellogg's cerals is that they still add BHT to the lining in the box.
BHT, created by the British in the 1920s to preserve lard shipped in from Argentina (10,000 miles away) is banned in most of the developed world and even several developing countries because it's been shown to be a power neurotoxin and carcinogen. That means, of course, that's it's not only been linked to cancer, but to Parkinson's as well.
Until 1980, I believe, they were allowed to add BHT to the cereal itself; since then, they've only added it to the lining. As toxic as it is though, you'd still be getting far more than is safe (which is anything more than a trace).
TheDormouse
(1,168 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)False equivalence much?
nilram
(2,879 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)"Nut n' Honey!"
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)(Whew, no, I think it's made by Post)
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)Be that as it may, I'm glad I don't eat cereal!
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,273 posts)TheDormouse
(1,168 posts)Beakybird
(3,329 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)EllieBC
(2,961 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)TheDormouse
(1,168 posts)Kellogg's released a statement saying that since this incident occurred two years ago, whatever cereals that might have been affected are long past their expiration dates and would either have already been consumed or discarded by now.
Sure, but what if this guy has continued doing this since then?
meow2u3
(24,745 posts)♪♪ Golden piss, golden piss ♪♪