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Personal trainer dies of caffeine overdose equivalent to 200 cups of coffee
https://weartv.com ^ | Monday, March 7th 2022 | by WKRC Staff

Posted on 03/07/2022 10:43:11 AM PST by Red Badger

Edited on 03/07/2022 11:14:35 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

COLWYN BAY, Wales (WKRC) — A coroner report shows a personal trainer died of a caffeine overdose due to a measuring mistake.

Tom Mansfield, 29, had bought a 3.5 oz. bag of caffeine powder from British sports supplement company Blackburn Distributions.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine; Sports
KEYWORDS: caffeine
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1 posted on 03/07/2022 10:43:11 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Geez...


2 posted on 03/07/2022 10:45:54 AM PST by caver
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To: Red Badger
Blackburn Distributions has assured the public that the supplement now comes with a measuring scoop and has enlarged the font for the usage instructions and potential side effects on the product.

Looks like the mfgr and consumer took a lackadaisical approach to dosing accuracy. This is why so many people OD on Fentanyl. It's not something to take likely.

3 posted on 03/07/2022 10:46:01 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Red Badger

But, in his last hour, he completed everything he planned to do for the next 5 years.


4 posted on 03/07/2022 10:46:28 AM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Red Badger

“The recommended dose of the powder is between 60 and 300 mg.”

See the problem here. Who the heck knwos waht an “mg” is?


5 posted on 03/07/2022 10:46:55 AM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Red Badger

Coffee has much more than 2-4 mg caffeine per liter. NoDoz pills are 200 mg each - which are not 50- liters coffee equivalent. Also, the article mixes oz and grams, making it hard to check.


6 posted on 03/07/2022 10:46:56 AM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Red Badger; Chewbarkah

I just responded on another thread about fentanyl pushers being considered mass murderers.

I guess Starbucks is a mass murderer.


7 posted on 03/07/2022 10:47:14 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s a crappy British car from the 60’s..............


8 posted on 03/07/2022 10:47:55 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
Stand back!


9 posted on 03/07/2022 10:49:02 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Red Badger
And that is why metric kills.

It does not live in the real world.

10 posted on 03/07/2022 10:50:31 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: Red Badger

A lot of folks don’t understand that substances like caffeine and nicotine are natural insecticides, their plants’ means of killing the insects that might otherwise snack on them. At a massive enough dose, what’ll kill a beetle might kill you.


11 posted on 03/07/2022 10:51:45 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Red Badger; Conservative4Life
A Hundred Coffees
12 posted on 03/07/2022 10:52:57 AM PST by Trillian
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Crazy. Why not just drink the coffee?

Black coffee is very healthy and you will not have to worry about overdosing. Kind of hard to drink 200 cups!

13 posted on 03/07/2022 10:53:12 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 25 days from outliving Robert Reed (the father of the Brady Bunch))
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To: Red Badger

WARNING : Caffeine Powder is extremely potent and will only be sold to BUSINESSES in line with FDA regulation. Please read all instructions before using this product.

https://www.blackburndistributions.com/us/review/product/list/id/745/category/10/?p=5


14 posted on 03/07/2022 10:55:00 AM PST by conservative98
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To: Red Badger

The high end 300mg dose is about 0.01 ounce. He used 0.2, or 20 times the highest recommended dose. Ouch.


15 posted on 03/07/2022 10:56:50 AM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: conservative98

It appears he was from Wales so the FDA warning doesn’t apply to him.


16 posted on 03/07/2022 10:57:04 AM PST by conservative98
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To: Red Badger

Buying wholesale drugs in powdered form IS NOT for the mathematically challenged!


17 posted on 03/07/2022 11:01:40 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Trillian

18 posted on 03/07/2022 11:02:03 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Red Badger

My sister had one. Green convertible. ‘Bout shook itself to pieces just idling.


19 posted on 03/07/2022 11:02:48 AM PST by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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To: real saxophonist

That wasn’t a bug! It was a feature!................


20 posted on 03/07/2022 11:04:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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