Energy drink controversy
Have seen in Belize, where I live, a budding young upcoming television reporter and journalist who also found dead after consuming an energy drink. He was buried and no further inquiries were made but it always stuck in my mind that an energy drink was responsible for his untimely death because of an empty can that was found near his bedside. The amount of variables involved here is also very wide but think that your F.D.A. should do some research and put warning labels on these beverages should the facts warrant or deem it necessary. Really, I have no faith in this lot who readily bend and bow to the dictates of the powerful lobbies who make sure that congress protect the interests of these companies. Don't think it necessarily have to be the caffeine content either. There is a long list of other compounds like maca and guarana in these drinks, to just name a few from memory, that may also cause or trigger adverse cardiovascular events in certain people who may not even be aware that they may be susceptible to them. At least in your country you have the recourse of the courts and a whole lot of greedy lawyers on both sides. All can remember down here is a grieving and heart-broken mom who it probably never crossed her mind that the innocuous empty energy drink can may have held some answers for her son's untimely death.
