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Wrigley holds off on caffeinated gum as FDA reviews caffeine
Less than a week after the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would investigate the safety of added caffeine in U.S. food and beverage products, Wrigley North America has decided to put its bid to market a caffeinated gum on hold out of...Tags: Dietary Supplements, American Academy of Pediatrics, Consumer Goods Industries, Agriculture, Taurine (dietary supplement)
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Monster Beverage sued by San Francisco
San Francisco City Atty. Dennis Herrera has sued Monster Beverage Corp., accusing the company of pitching highly caffeinated drinks to minors as young as 6 years old. The lawsuit, filed Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, is the latest twist in a...
Tags: Litigation, Consumers, Starbucks Corp., Consumer Goods Industries, Justice System
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Monster Beverage Now In Legal War With San Francisco, While Connecticut Nutritionist Keeps Calling for Ban on Energy Drink Sales to Kids
A couple of months ago, Monster Beverage threatened to sue a Connecticut nutritionist named Dr. Deborah Kennedy unless she stopped saying high-caffeine energy drinks were dangerous for kids. Then the multi-billion-dollar company, the biggest energy-...Tags: PepsiCo Inc., Litigation, Trials
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Buzz kill
RedEyeCome Fridays, Nelson Ignila, a 22-year-old Lincoln Park resident, is exhausted from the long hours he puts in at his management consulting job. Since he doesn't have time for an evening nap before going out, Ignila reaches for one of the 5-Hour Energy...Tags: Internists, Justice System, George A. Cardenas, High Blood Pressure, Crime, Law and Justice
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High-octane taste test
RedEyeFrom coffee to citrus, energy drinks have a range of flavors designed to perk up your taste buds. We rounded up the five most caffeinated energy drinks available in Chicago (as ranked by Consumer Reports) and asked RedEye staff for their snap judgments....Tags: Coughing
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FDA will investigate added caffeine in foods
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trail mix. Potato chips. And now gum. With a growing number of foods boasting added caffeine for an energy boost, the Food and Drug Administration says it's time to investigate their safety. The FDA's new look at added caffeine...Tags: American Academy of Pediatrics, Health Organizations, Children's Health, Washington, DC, Food and Drug Administration
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Monster Beverage Versus Connecticut Nutritionist: Round Two
The confrontation pitting a Connecticut nutritionist (backed by several members of Congress) against the multi-billion-dollar maker of Monster Energy drinks is continuing with no sign that either side is backing down. Monster Beverage threatened earlier...Tags: Guilford (New Haven, Connecticut), U.S. Congress, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Marketing, Food Industry
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Connecticut Nutritionist in a Standoff With Monster After Calling Out Energy Drinks
A multi-billion-dollar monster of a beverage company is threatening to sue a Connecticut nutritionist unless she takes back her statements that little kids shouldn't have caffeine-loaded "energy" drinks. In fact, the company's name happens to be Monster...
Tags: Starbucks Corp., Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Yale University, The New York Times, Heart Problems
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A healthy dose of data
The daily broadcast of medical reports, scientific studies and sociological statistics can cause your ears to ring. Sometimes a report will contradict the findings of another issued just days earlier. More often, compelling snapshots of the American...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics, Human papillomavirus, High Blood Pressure, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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For the record
Energy drinks: An article in the March 5 Business section about Monster Beverage Corp.'s defense of its energy drinks in the face of health concerns said that Honest Tea and other brands provide a boost partially by using ingredients such as yerba mate in...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Television Industry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Entertainment, AMC (tv network)
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Chicago energy drink ban: Much buzz, no action
Clout StreetThe perceived dangers to children posed by often-sugary, much-caffeinated energy drinks resulted in much talk but no action Tuesday during a City Council committee hearing. Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, has proposed banning drinks with at least 180 milligrams...Tags: Starbucks Corp., Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Local Government, Coca-Cola Co.
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Monster says no evidence shows its energy drinks killed girl, 14
Monster Beverage Corp. has its own take on what happened to Anais Fournier, the 14-year-old Maryland girl whose family blames her 2011 death on her consumption of Monster energy drinks. The Fourniers sued Monster in October, alleging negligence and...
Tags: Starbucks Corp., Pathology, Heart Problems, Medical Specialization, General Practitioners
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