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One cup equals 8 oz. Most coffee cups hold much more than 8 oz. Mine holds 16 oz.
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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No, mon, I have so much caffeing in my system, my heart CAN’T stop beating.
More nani
Not nanny
One cup equals 8 oz. Most coffee cups hold much more than 8 oz. Mine holds 16 oz.
Most of the garbage Big Pharma sells is much more dangerous than caffiene.
Good one.
Mmmmmm. Colommmmmbiannnnn.
What can we do to stop the scourge of the hydrogen dioxide addiction epidemic? Think of the children. </sob>
Hands off my Saeco Royal Digital Plus espresso machine!
“Ingesting a large quantity of salt will kill a person. Why isn’t salt banned?”
You answered your question before you asked it.
Two? We are generalizing from two to the entire population? That sample is approximately 6.140620202640467e-9% of the 325.7 million inhabitants. Seems like a kinda small sample to me.
Like the ‘5 WHYs’, the question, “By what authority” should be infinity asked to get to the root.
I’d suspect 90%+ of govt would come down to ‘Commerce Clause’ or ‘General Welfare’...aka null/void.
With a pure powder, it would be easy for some knucklehead to have the equivalent of 50 to 100 cups of coffee in one serving.
And they should be free to do so.
Ingesting a large quantity of water will kill you too! And that’s drinking it not breathing.
I can’t believe you can buy straight caffeine powder
What a disaster
Imagine if they sold pure nicotine. One drop and any adult is dead
Pure alcohol or close to is extremeky hazardous
There’s a reason why there’s mixed drinks. Coffee. Tea etc
A little bit is going
A lot is NOT better
....inked to at least two deaths
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“Just gag me with a three-skegged surf board!”——Bob Hardy Jr. R.I.P.
Mine’s a Saiga 12-shot maker.
To deaths and you ban the stuff? Seriously?
Sounds more like a good gene pool cleaning product if you ask me.
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