Could I get in trouble for selling homeopathic alcohol products? Let’s say I wanted to sell, either online or in the stores, a 200c solution of 30 year old whiskey(food coloring added, but guaranteed on the label not to effect potency)-would I have any problems with laws about alcohol and/or medicine?
Is the question whether or not sticking “homeopathic” in the name exempts you from all otherwise relevant laws? I think you know the answer.
For what purpose?
Homeopathic beer for teen agers, for instance?
Novelty bottled water.
If I knew the answer, I wouldn’t be asking the question. What relevant laws are you talking about?
So everyone understands, you are talking about a 1 part per bazillion ratio so the alcohol would basically be undetectable in the mixture, right? I think Amateur Barbarian is thinking the mix would still be alcoholic so obviously he is referring to alcohol sale laws.
You’d probably want to examine laws regarding alcohol content, but my first guess is that a beverage that is less than 1/100[sup]200[/sup]th alcohol will be exempt.
This is especially true considering that there are, at most, 10[sup]80[/sup] atoms in the observable universe; a 200C dilution of an earthly quantity of whiskey has, to a very high certainty, zero whiskey molecules left in it.
Near beer or non-alcoholic beer (both of which contain minimal alcohol) are the closest analogs, I think. There are local/state rules and regulations about both that vary quite a bit - Low-alcohol beer - Wikipedia
In many states it would be essentially unregulated. In others it’s still regulated.
So, alcohol law-wise I’m pretty much in the clear.
Is there any sort of training or certification needed to call a product “homeopathic”?
Probably a homeopathic college.
Millions of students-one book.
More like one letter from one book.
White font color on white paper stock.
You need a Masters degree in selling bullshit to suckers. Fortunately, I offer it as an online course for $500 a semester.
A little looking shows that Homeopathic preparations are covered by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (1938) IF it is listed in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States. I doubt whiskey dilutions are in there so it would probably be covered other FDA regulations.
I can’t seem to find anything at all concerning homeopathic alcohol dilutions.
Can’t check The Homœopathic Pharmacopœia of the United States without first subscribing…and I’m not paying anything from $100 for a 1 day subscription to $15,000 for an unlimited subscription.
Yes, I missed that point. I was thinking of the current crop of “medicines” that clearly seem to be trying to get around FDA rules and regulations by calling themselves homeopathic.
If Czar wants to market C200 bourbon, I think his primary opposition will come from the ATF, which gets bitchy about subtleties of alcohol-related products, particularly labeling terminology, ingredient listings, certain forbidden words etc.
I thought about that, then I remembered seeing products labeled “apple beer”, “root beer” and “ginger beer” that have no alcohol in them at all.
Like cures like, right? So would you be selling it as a hangover cure?
Homeopathic Bourbon elixir? Maybe label with the Latin word for snake oil?