FDA Investigates Monster Energy Drinks After Deaths - Yahoo! News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reportedly investigating five deaths that allegedly have a link to Monster, the energy drink manufactured by the Monster Beverage Corporation. The investigation was prompted by a lawsuit filed against the company by the parents of 14-year-old Anais Fournier, who charge that the girl died of caffeine toxicity after drinking just two Monster drinks, according to reports by Forbes and other media outlets.
The investigation follows years of protests from health officials over the safety of energy drinks, which are not subject to the same regulations as soda. A 16-ounce Monster drink contains 160 mg of caffeine, according to EnergyFiend, while soda is only allowed to contain 72 mg per 12-ounce can as dictated by the FDA itself.
Soooo let me get this straight. A wopping 5 people out of the millions in our whole nation die from drinking mosnter....and the FDA GETS ALL OVER IT.
How many people die from alcohol and alcohol related accidetns each year. And tobacco related cancers and disease? Yet these products are legal and everywhere.
FDA = fooled your dumbass. If its FDA approved, it won't work lol. I love being a nutritional expert and certified for supplementation. If the FDA pulls a product that means its working and helping your body. They don't want that. That means less money for them. Does anyone take vitamin D3? Did you know the FDA doesn't allow vitamin D supplements to have even a fraction of the right amount your body actually needs to see any difference? So even tho it says 10,000 or 1,000 ius, that doesn't mean its all Vitamin D3.
FDA really pisses me off.
But i love our country. GREED at its finest. lol.
Soooo let me get this straight. A wopping 5 people out of the millions in our whole nation die from drinking mosnter....and the FDA GETS ALL OVER IT.
How many people die from alcohol and alcohol related accidetns each year. And tobacco related cancers and disease? Yet these products are legal and everywhere.
FDA = fooled your dumbass. If its FDA approved, it won't work lol. I love being a nutritional expert and certified for supplementation. If the FDA pulls a product that means its working and helping your body. They don't want that. That means less money for them. Does anyone take vitamin D3? Did you know the FDA doesn't allow vitamin D supplements to have even a fraction of the right amount your body actually needs to see any difference? So even tho it says 10,000 or 1,000 ius, that doesn't mean its all Vitamin D3.
FDA really pisses me off.
But i love our country. GREED at its finest. lol.
I'm curious where this is coming from (the source of the info). I remember seeing similar articles about that energy drink/malt liquor that got banned ("tres locos" maybe?), and all of the deaths involved people mixing it with craploads of other stuff. Usually some combination of alcohol and various street drugs. I wouldn't be surprised if we're seeing the same thing here. Frankly, there's a much better reason not to drink Monster: it tastes like puke.
But alcohol and tobacco - and many other potentially dangerous products - are regulated. Legal action can fall your way if you buy it for a minor, etc.
Energy Drinks are not.
It was posted above yours but I agree with you I'm sure it was mixed. The drink alone won't kill you but the actions you combine with it could.
Just checked the article. It's not very useful, unfortunately. I'd like to see some details. Parents freak the hell out about things like this, and are probably disinclined to think that their precious perfect child was, perhaps, using Monster to chase shots of tequila (which is probably a bad idea).
There's a warning on the cans for a reason.
There's a warning on the can?
Not sure if the states is the same but as far as I remember (been awhile since I've had a can).
It's just in tiny print on the back saying "Do not drink more than (X) ml a day of this stuff"
Gotcha. Seems like good (and hopefully obvious) advice. The same is, of course, true of coffee, or anything else with caffeine in it.
This warning or some variation of this warning as far as I know is on the back of every energy drink can.
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Comparing Coffee and Energy drinks is like comparing a cruise missile to a Nuclear Bomb in terms of it's effect on the body.
These drinks are serious business and they haven't been around long enough for us to understand it's effects, but nobody should be drinking this stuff.
Soooo let me get this straight. A wopping 5 people out of the millions in our whole nation die from drinking mosnter....and the FDA GETS ALL OVER IT.
How many people die from alcohol and alcohol related accidetns each year. And tobacco related cancers and disease? Yet these products are legal and everywhere.
FDA = fooled your dumbass. If its FDA approved, it won't work lol. I love being a nutritional expert and certified for supplementation. If the FDA pulls a product that means its working and helping your body. They don't want that. That means less money for them. Does anyone take vitamin D3? Did you know the FDA doesn't allow vitamin D supplements to have even a fraction of the right amount your body actually needs to see any difference? So even tho it says 10,000 or 1,000 ius, that doesn't mean its all Vitamin D3.
FDA really pisses me off.
But i love our country. GREED at its finest. lol.
I do know that I, and many other people I've known, have had numerous red bull & vodka's at nightclubs
and if you're not a moron about it, you're not going to end up in the ER.
I gather from your other posts that you're concerned about long-term effects.
Energy drinks haven't really been around long enough for long-term impact to be properly assessed.
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