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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.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:32PM
I have very little argument with that. Other than the concerns that there are bad people who do bad things. But that has always been true. I would propose that certain bad things should be kept out of the hands of certain bad people. But that idea never seems to get very far. Even if it is a sincere attempt at not taking away everyone's guns, explosives and chemistry sets. (I enjoyed 3 chem sets as a kid. And other dangerous things like CRTs removed from trashed TVs, and other scary things.)
I would be more worried about climate change than chemistry sets.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.