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posted by mrpg on Monday April 16 2018, @11:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the precedence:bulk dept.

FDA Bans Pure Bulk Caffeine Products, Citing "significant Public Health Concern"

Companies can no longer sell bulk packages of liquid or powdered caffeine directly to consumers, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday. The policy will take immediate effect "given the significant public health concern," according to the agency's statement released Friday. "Highly concentrated and pure caffeine, often sold in bulk packages, have been linked to at least two deaths in otherwise healthy individuals," the agency stated.

[...] In small doses, if you're otherwise healthy, caffeine shouldn't kill you. But part of the issue is that highly concentrated caffeine looks nothing like the kinds of caffeinated products we're used to seeing. Instead, it can look like water if it's in a liquid form or sugar if it's powdered. "The consequences of a consumer mistakenly confusing one of these products could be toxic or even lethal," the agency stated.

[...] Between 10 and 14 grams of caffeine is considered life-threatening, according to the FDA's guidelines, though people can have an irregular or rapid heart rate and seizures after taking just a gram. The amount of concentrated caffeine that's considered safe at a time—200 milligrams—is very, very small.

Also at Bloomberg.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:48PM (#668051)

    i thought the republican party was against the nanny state that the democrats are always accused of ushering in?

    maybe this is just to test the waters for other means of population control? opium seems to be a sedative and the legal prescriptions are pretty popular. Maybe someone wanted to make money off of a new speedball drug coming out to help counteract the drowsiness of addictive painkillers?

    get addicted to sedatives and stimulants; it won't cure anything but it will make money for someone!

    i mean look at that bitcoin guy that died at the rehab clinic. he had a monthly habit that was a retail price of $100k worth of oxycontin. Maybe all he needed was black death coffee!

    anyway, may be soar with the red bulls, cause he died during treatment. i am guessing they told him he couldn't have any more and he didn't take it well. that or he learned there are some things money can't buy.

    the problem is real tho. this remove two regulations for every new regulation doesnt seem to include fda actions.

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