Popular drinks like Four Loko and Joose are popular with kids, but they are dangerous and the FDA may soon ban them.
Alcoholic beverage manufacturers are always looking for the next big thing. They thought they found it with the questionable mix of alcohol and caffeine creating brands like Four Loko and Joose.
Now the Food and Drug Administration is preparing to ban these caffeinated alcoholic drinks from the U.S. market, according to Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York). The FDA has been reviewing the drinks since 2009 and has yet to make a formal statement, but it doesn’t take a government agency to see that caffeine is an unsafe additive to alcoholic beverages.
“Let these rulings serve as a warning to anyone who tried to peddle dangerous and toxic brews to our children. Do it and we will shut you down,” Schumer said in a statement he released to the media.
Appeal to Underage Kids
He’s talking about children because this ill-conceived combination of ingredients has made the beverages a hit with under-age drinkers and those barely above the legal limit. Popular brands have the effect of three cups of coffee mixed with three cans of beer making for a cheap high, so it’s no wonder they’re appealing to young consumers.
Kids and teens already face greater health risks from drinking, due to the fact that their brains are still developing. Products like this only make drinking more appealing and the caffeine provides the energy to keep partying longer, leading to the danger of abuse.
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