Should Soda be sold with a Caffeine Drug Usage guide?!
Question: http://www.drugs.com/cons/caffeine.html
We get an Rx, they hand us a Drug Usage guide. We buy OTC meds, attached is a Druge Usage guide. It's a handy little thing that tells us
...what the Drug is for
...provides warnings for mixing with other drugs pregnancy, and the like
...Precautions
...How to use the drug
... what the dosage should be
... what the side effects are.
Don't we the consumer, when given a drug, have the right to this information? They label cigarettes. They label all other drugs. Why not Soda cans?
Answers: http://www.drugs.com/cons/caffeine.html
We get an Rx, they hand us a Drug Usage guide. We buy OTC meds, attached is a Druge Usage guide. It's a handy little thing that tells us
...what the Drug is for
...provides warnings for mixing with other drugs pregnancy, and the like
...Precautions
...How to use the drug
... what the dosage should be
... what the side effects are.
Don't we the consumer, when given a drug, have the right to this information? They label cigarettes. They label all other drugs. Why not Soda cans?
That is an excellent point! Caffeine is a drug- it alters your heart rate, and other functions in your body. The problem is, that so many foods as well as beverages contain caffeine (even in small doses). There is an excellent food labeling system in Europe that has a red/yellow/green coding- maybe we should implement that here?