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FDA Bans Pure Bulk Caffeine Products, Citing "Significant Public Health Concern"
newsweek ^ | Kate Sheridan

Posted on 04/15/2018 7:58:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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.

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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. It works out to be less than one-tenth of a teaspoon of the powdered form or a little more than two teaspoons of liquid caffeine. Good luck measuring that out properly at home.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ban; caffeine; fda; nannystate; wod
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1 posted on 04/15/2018 7:58:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

We need to ban The FDA.


2 posted on 04/15/2018 8:00:16 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: BenLurkin

Ooh. I thought of a better one. The FDA needs to FOAD.


3 posted on 04/15/2018 8:00:49 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: BenLurkin
The amount of concentrated caffeine that’s considered safe at a time—200 milligrams—is very, very small.

ONE cup of brewed coffee has 95-165 mg of caffeine. So three cups of coffee have 285 to 495 mg. That sounds like the danger zone.

4 posted on 04/15/2018 8:02:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Texas Eagle

About twenty-five years ago, when the high-caffeine drink Red-Bull came on the market in Europe...there was this episode to occur in Ireland. Some teenager had consumed a number of Red-Bulls before soccer practice, and about halfway through practice....had a heart attack, and died. All autopsy efforts led back to the caffeine drink.


5 posted on 04/15/2018 8:09:16 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

From my cold, dead, jittery fingers.


6 posted on 04/15/2018 8:12:42 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Shoot, I have three cups of coffee before my first cup of coffee.


7 posted on 04/15/2018 8:13:17 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

ATTABOY...I just returned from a 4 month stay in Colombia....5-6 cups a day there!


8 posted on 04/15/2018 8:16:53 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: Texas Eagle

A lot of homemade coffee may be only 70-80 mg of caffeine. A large coffee from a specialty shop might be 300 or so mg.

Someone who’s actually caffeine addicted might need more than 200 mg for it to make a difference.


9 posted on 04/15/2018 8:18:05 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: BenLurkin
Note to FDA: We seem to have gotten along pretty well with this stuff. Please go home and take another nap.


10 posted on 04/15/2018 8:18:32 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

3 cups of coffee is the danger zone for a lot of people, I get a racing heart beat and feel awful after drinking that much caffeine


11 posted on 04/15/2018 8:21:43 AM PDT by chemical_boy
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To: BenLurkin

Ingesting a large quantity of salt will kill a person. Why isn’t salt banned?


12 posted on 04/15/2018 8:22:37 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Leftism is an elaborate system for hiding shame behind a cheap mash of virtue. -Klavan.)
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To: BenLurkin

[[at least two deaths in otherwise healthy individuals,” the agency stated. ... Between 10 and 14 grams of caffeine is considered life-threatening]]

Breaking: Feds ban water because several otherwise healthy individuals have died from overdoses of water- too much water is considered life-threatening


13 posted on 04/15/2018 8:25:22 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks for posting an article that most FReepers won’t read past the headline.


14 posted on 04/15/2018 8:34:14 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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“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. .."

"Ladders taller than six feet have been linked to at least fifty deaths in otherwise healthy individuals, the agency said in announcing the ban on "industrial-length" ladders to the general public . . ." /s
15 posted on 04/15/2018 8:34:42 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Moonman62

“Thanks for posting an article that most FReepers won’t read past the headline.”

I’ve never read further than that and I’m not about to start now.


16 posted on 04/15/2018 8:38:53 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: Texas Eagle

Are you dead?


17 posted on 04/15/2018 8:39:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BenLurkin

In order for our “regulators” in federal agencies to keep their jobs, they must constantly come up with new “regulations” for the citizenry.

I think this is easily in the top three problems facing the nation.

The federal government should NOT be a “make-work project.”


18 posted on 04/15/2018 8:40:35 AM PDT by JennysCool
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Heh, heh. I think the full line is, “Sanka? Are you dead, mon?”


19 posted on 04/15/2018 8:41:55 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: chemical_boy

Me, too. I made some big diet changes Jan 1 this year including zero caffeine and zero alcohol (I kept to the first part and really good on Part 2) as well as zero beverages with acid (OJ, coffee). It’s done wonders for me.


20 posted on 04/15/2018 8:42:01 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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