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Between this and the capsaicin chip, maybe you should have some regulatory entity checking foods (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by RNAi@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

The what?

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

A man drank 2.5 litres of caffeinated lemonade, totalling 1100+ mg of caffeine. He then died.

Theres probably a co-morbidity because the LD50 of caffeine is like 5000mg.

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

Honestly its safe to expect most Americans to have some already existing heart condition

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago

Still kinda irresponsible for them to put something stronger than energy drinks in a self serve drink fountain. They labelled it with "390mg caffeine per large serve" expecting the average American to know metric or have any frame of reference outside of people that read the FDA website (which also for some reason says 400 mg, in metric, for the recommended daily intake for an adult)

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yup, should have had an included warning ("X is the recommended safe daily amount of caffeine"), then again that's expecting a corporation to actually care about people which they do not (or expect to be punished when they harm them via negligence).

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

Let's be honest, it would just be like the fine print that says "drink responsibly" pasted on Everclear or some other 90% alcoholic spirit.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

At least alcohol you can taste and if it's strong as hell you can feel. Someone attempting to just down some everclear is more than likely just gonna barf most of it back right up immediately and feel fucking terrible before they can do too much harm to themselves. It feels like you're doing damage. This could sneak up on people.

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

True, the smallest of fine print in the corner where it can still be legally defended as a "warning", this stuff should prolly get the 4Loko treatment and be removed from the public but sadly will prolly not

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

"warning drink too much and you'll fucking die"

would be my suggested warning

[-] ped_xing@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

I have that frame of reference because I abused caffeine pills. I would carry them around in an Altoids container because they went down a little easier with a coating of Altoids dust. They were 200 mg apiece. I only exceeded two in a serving once and regretted it intensely, then failed the final for which I was attempting to cram. A two-pill drink is bonkers, and at Panera? I don't understand this place any longer.

[-] ElGosso@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

Both the people who died after drinking it did IIRC

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I might be misremembering, but I think caffeine's ld50 is closer to 2000mg. 1000mg is enough for a normal person to suffer caffeine poisoning at any rate.