Personal Injury Law

Caffeine-Alcohol Drinks Banned in Massachusetts

By Edward Bills

The Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission has banned alcoholic drinks that contain high levels of caffeine, including the recently popular Four Loko. By the end of the day Thursday, all of the banned products were to have been removed from store shelves across the state. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently issued a warning that “the caffeine in such beverages was ‘an unsafe food additive’ and further action against them was possible.” There have been recent cases in Washington and New Jersey where college students were hospitalized after consuming the drinks. It is unclear if other states will follow Massachusetts’ lead and ban the products.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on November 20, 2010 (boomark / email).