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Petition calls for FDA to regulate energy drinks

Seeded on Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:56 PM EDT
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"You can pick up a can and drink it and get 50 milligrams, which is the amount in a Mountain Dew, or pick one up and get 500 milligrams, and that's enough to put someone who hasn't built up a tolerance to caffeine into caffeine intoxication, resulting in nervousness, anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, nausea, vomiting, tremors and rapid heart rate," Griffiths says.

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The chart is really cool, and now I don't feel quite so bad about all that Diet Mountain Dew anymore!  (It's just orange juice anyway. :-)

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