Here is a product page for Full Throttle energy drinks, specifically their products designed to be dispensed as a fountain drinks. In their description of Full Throttle Night, there is this quote:
Compared to the description of their companion product, Full Throttle Twisted:
It sounds like there is some law/rule/regulation prohibiting “high caffeine content” beverages being “self-served”.
So, does anyone know whether there is actually some official prohibition such as this, or is this just corporate puffery (Our product is so energizing, we can only allow professionals to dispense it!!!eleven!)?
Because I’m not the one who asked the question in the first place ;), and I don’t care that much, I just had a guess and since no one else was speaking up yet, thought I’d throw it out there.
Or just pop a handful of No-Doz, if that’s all you’re after. Seriously though, the puffery thing is my baseline assumption, unless I find out otherwise, and google has not helped yet.
Isn’t that like asking a vacuum cleaner salesman if your carpet looks dirty?
Anyway, I was hoping someone, possibly in the beverage industry, might have some insight in to this, but I’m not losing any sleep over the question. Thanks to all that responded.
RunnerPat I loved the link you provided. I was actually shocked to see it would take 104 cups of brewed coffee to kill me. I often feel the jitters after drinking 4, 8ounce brewed ups in one go.
That site gives this info for Full Throttle. It doesn’t seem to be particularly off-the-chart for caffeine content. But I can’t really find anything comparable that I’ve seen as a fountain beverage, so I can’t really say one way or the other whether there’s a limit that they cross.
There is some question about the safety of caffeine in children and teenagers; whether or not it affects their growth and development somehow. I don’t recall any conclusive studies, but with high-caffeine drinks becoming widely available and with many teens drinking this stuff in fairly high numbers (from what I recall hearing/reading in a newspaper, perhaps?), there are more studies being done.
So I suspect that the company may be limiting the dispensing of such beverages to food servers who, presumably, would prevent a 10 year old from drinking 20 portions of the stuff. The fear of bad press if it turns out that caffeine is bad for kids is probably driving this.
I checked my drug of choice, (Diet Dr. Pepper) and found out for my weight, I’ll die after drinking 384.53 cans. But, but I’ve already had more than that! :eek:
