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Senators Dick Durbin and Richard Blumenthal want the FDA to assess the effect that caffeine has...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 12:50 PM ETSenators Dick Durbin and Richard Blumenthal want the FDA to assess the effect that caffeine has on children, instead of focusing solely on adults. The bigger issue at play is if the FDA will decide to re-categorize energy drinks as sodas which would limit caffeine to 0.72 mg/12 ounces. Though the fast-growing energy market isn't going away anytime soon, regulation could curb growth.
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Ephedrine has been illegal in everything but medications which you must show ID, sign for, get from behind the pharmacy counter, can only buy 3.6 grams of in a day, 9 grams in a month, and all of that information is kept for 2 years.
That has been the law since 2006, research is a wonderful thing.
"They also contribute to obesity, because they make junkies out of kids who then binge and crash"
That sounds like a parenting problem to me. Either that, or we need to start prosecuting Smith and Wesson every time someone uses one of their guns in a crime, Ford et al when someone hits another person with a car, and Boeing or Airbus when someone flies a plane into a building. Believe it or not, people have a responsibility for their actions and their decisions; although no one wants to remember that fact anymore.
Durbin and Blumenthal are nanny state cretins. The FDA has enough to do (not particularly well) without picking on the freaking energy drink industry. How about these Senators do their job and produce a budget instead?
Was that good enough for you?
I think every person should be responsible for what they eat and drink and no the congress deciding for us and our children.