7/21/2023 0 Comments Taurine in monster![]() ![]() But as a comment on my recent piece about energy drinks pointed out, there’s much more in these beverages than just caffeine and water. With the wicked flurry of news about the Food and Drug Administration’s Monster Energy Drink investigation, there’s been a lot of follow-on news about the amount of caffeine in energy drinks. We Know About Caffeine in Energy Drinks Like Monster, But What About the Other Ingredients? ![]() Last month, two US senators wrote to the FDA asking the watchdog to begin an investigation into the ingredients used by energy drink makers and the impact high levels of caffeine could have on young people. The case is likely to increase calls in Congress for more regulation of energy drinks and for curbs on the strategy of aggressively marketing to young people. Monster Beverages’ share price fell more than 14 per cent following the news of the lawsuit and the FDA investigation. The company strenuously denied any link between the deaths and its product saying it was “unaware of any fatality anywhere that has been caused by its drinks” and that it would contest Anais’s family’s lawsuit. Monster, the top-selling energy drink in the US, is sold in Britain and, like all high energy drinks, carries a label warning of its high caffeine content.Īs of December next year it will be forced to warn that its product is “not suitable for children, pregnant women and persons sensitive to caffeine”.Ī spokesman for Britain’s Food Standards Agency said there were no plans to investigate Monster. If a link is established the FDA could rule that Monster was unsafe and force the company to stop selling or alter its composition to make it safe. We continue to investigate the five deaths and the one heart attack associated with Monster energy drinks.” “Under the law adverse event reports serve as a signal to FDA and do not prove causation between a product or ingredient and an adverse event. “When FDA receives any adverse event report of a death or an injury we take it very seriously and we investigate each report diligently,” she said. Shelly Burgess, a spokesman for the FDA, said no causal link had yet been established between the deaths and the energy drink. Other reports included complaints of vomiting, heart tremors and chest pain from people who had consumed the drink. The FDA reports, which also cite one non-fatal heart attack possibly linked to Monster, emerged during the course of the family lawsuit. “I just want Monster Energy to know their product can kill.”ĭocuments from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US safety watchdog, show that since 2009 at least four people were reported to have died soon after drinking Monster. “Nothing will replace the love and vitality of Anais,” she told the Record Herald. Wendy Crossland, her mother, said that the brightly-coloured cans were “death traps” for the young people they are marketed at. ![]() The two drinks together contained 480 milligrams of caffeine. US authorities are now investigating four other incidents in which people died soon after consuming the popular energy drink.Īnais’s parents allege that the high levels of caffeine overwhelmed their daughter’s heart and aggravated an existing medical condition, causing her death two days before Christmas last year. The makers of Monster, an energy drink with the caffeine equivalent, of seven cans of Coca-Cola, are being sued by the family of a 14-year-old girl, who died after she consumed two of the beverages.Īnais Fournier, from Maryland, died of a heart attack in December after she drank two 24-ounce cans in two days.
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