New FDA Target. Busy little beavers.

[Momof3]

FDA says no to alcohol and caffeine. You can still drink rum and Coke, but pre-mixed, nope unapproved/adulterated/etc. The usual marketed to/need to protect the youth...

Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks Are Dead. (Long Live … ) - Health Blog - WSJ

Letter from FDA
Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages Sample Letter # 1

 

[ladysolitary85]

Wow... something tells me the FDA is going to get themselves in a world full of hurt by the people if they keep trying to mess with our rights.

 

[catwoman19]

They will keep messing because they have more money than God and the Congress lets them Just wait and see what they go after next, fast food, donuts, candy, got to protect the KIDS

 

[kcr]

Guess I am old--I wasn't even aware there *were* caffeinated alcoholic drinks.

Can they sell decaffeinated alcoholic drinks?

Ya know, I wish they would go after caffeine. Then someone would kick them right where they need it most. People who actually care about nicotine are in the minority, but you go after peoples' caffeine and the whole herd will stampede you.

 

[paradox77]

Sparks was big around here for a while. They were forced to remove the caffeine. Now there is like 10 different brands of caffeine/alcohol beverages to choose from. Wonder why they got banned and no one else.

I love those drinks.

 

[Kewtsquirrel]

In all fairness, there have been a number of people ending up with very serious if not fatal alcohol poisoning due to mixing lots of caffeine with alcohol. The depressant effects of alcohol will generally slow your drinking down as you get more and more intoxicated, mixing that with a stimulant can mask the felt effects and people end up drinking far more than than they may realize and bam - dead.

Ironic that they go after things like e-cigs yet don't give a **** about all of the added chemicals to cigarettes, though.

 

[Stephaniems]

I've never had those sorts of drinks before but I love my rum and coke, so they can kiss my a**.


Fun Destroyers Agency

 

[martha1014]

If it gets where bars cannot mix caffeine with alcohol then it may get where you can smoke nitocine with alcohol. It has to stop somewhere.

And lord help us when we drink caffeine, alcohol and smoke. We will be doomed.

 

[ladysolitary85]

And they just HAD to do this around the holidays...

No more Bailey and Cream :-(

Oh just wait and watch what happens if they take coffee away from us! to "protect the children, blah blah blah" Starbucks would be ...... for sure.

And so would all of us American coffee drinkers.

If they take my jack and coke away, fine, I'll just make some at home lol.

 

[JerryRM]

FDA says no to alcohol and caffeine. You can still drink rum and Coke, but pre-mixed, nope unapproved/adulterated/etc. The usual marketed to/need to protect the youth...

Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks Are Dead. (Long Live … ) - Health Blog - WSJ

Letter from FDA
Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages Sample Letter # 1

If these drinks are being marketed to young people, then the young people they are referring to must be 18 years or older. Since the drinks contain alcohol, it would be a whole other subject if they were marketed to minors.

The "protect the children" argument is rather ridiculous anyway. Many, if not most products are dangerous in the hands of children. Will they ban household cleaners (little Johnnie could drink them and get sick), automobiles (little Johnnie could go for a joy ride and get into an accident), power tools (little Johnnie could cut his finger off), I think you get the point, the list is endless.

If they are going to use this argument, then to be fair, they would have to ban everything that is dangerous to children.

 

[mtndude]

I suppose that coffee and caffeine will soon be regulated as "adult only".

Everyone knows that kids don't need caffeine, they need ritalin and adderall.

 

[ladysolitary85]

Grrrr.... can some please please please please smack the FDA in the face or something?? They've got way too much power on their hands.

 

[jerrydon10]

Mixing Red Bull and one's fav liquor is VERY popular in one bar I occasionally frequent. I'm sure this is what the FDA is referring to.

I have never tried that as I have wondered if it is safe.

That is my right. But I have no right to tell you not to do it. And if I did, just like the FDA, you have the right to tell me to kiss your a@@.

 

[martha1014]

I think they are just referred to those that are marketed and sold with caffiene already in them. I guess I too old also or just don't drink enough to know what the premarketed with caffiene are. What are some of these?

 

[martha1014]

As a matter of fact I think I will come out with a caffienated, alcohol and nicotine mixture and make millions.

 

[supertrkre2812]

It used to be that the sun was bad for you, so we get the children video games, they stay inside away from the sun, then they don't get any exercise, get fat and lazy, now they say limit your childrens time on the tv and games and get them to go out in the sun!!!!!!!!!
the FDA have too much power.
They didn't like flavored cigarettes cause it was bad for the children, but it is against the law for children to buy them, so how is it bad for the children when they aren't supposed to have them in the first place???????

 

[cluster]

The end of Irish coffee is suppose?

 

[SLDS181]

In all fairness, there have been a number of people ending up with very serious if not fatal alcohol poisoning due to mixing lots of caffeine with alcohol.

So what you're saying is, stupid people who don't control themselves may end up hurting themselves?

Thats a complete shocker right there.

FFS, since when is it illegal to market to your consumer-base? W. T. F.

 

[Nestran]

So this:

"The increasing popularity of consumption of caffeinated alcoholic beverages by college students and reports of potential health and safety issues necessitates that we look seriously at the scientific evidence as soon as possible,” said Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, principal deputy commissioner of food and drugs."

Is the students part just the sheeple spin? I fail to see what college students have to do with safety triggers. The way I see it is if I were to get sick off this stuff I could sue the FDA because they are implying that it is not safe for college students. Apparently I'm ok though.

Of course I am, I inhale anti freeze!

Nestran

 

[Vocalek]

I took up regular coffee drinking when I was 8 years old. Maybe that's how I managed to get through childhood without being diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. According to the diagnostic manual, you can't possibly have ADD unless you had it as a child.

The doctor's theory was that I avoided problems in childhood because I am "high functioning" and was able to compensate for the attention problems. Maybe so. Or maybe it was the coffee. Or maybe both.

When I got to college I did start to experience some significant problems because the style of teaching was very different. Throughout grade school and high school, we spent a lot of class time interacting, discussing, exchanging ideas, etc. In college, I was expected to sit still for an entire hour and absorb all the info being thrown at me in a lecture. It didn't work for me. My grades plummeted. Then I took up smoking, and after that my grades improved.