FDA is about to review Safety of Energy Drinks containing Alcohol

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Apparently The Federal Drug Administration has asked 30 energy drink manufacturers on Friday for the information about their products and has also given them only 30 days to comply, this comes from a news release at the AG’s office.

llinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has indicated that she is well concerned about the effects of these energy drinks, and that they pose a risk, because they are extremely dangerous when in the hands of young people. She has also cited the most recent results and studies that have shown how the caffeine is masking out the alcohol.

According to the various sources the Federal Drug Administration has not yet approved caffeine in alcoholic beverages. While there have been previous attempts to stop the production of these drinks, they have been only successful to a degree and have resulting in production being ceased for only a handful of manufacturers.

The other alcoholic energy drink manufacturers have swiftly stepped in to meet demand of the market. Back In the year of 2007, Madigan has tried to urge Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and the Trade Bureau to stop the misleading claims that were being made by alcoholic energy drinks.

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Effectiveness of Breath-Alcohol Odor

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

In every DUI case, the officer is always prepared to testify against the arrested suspect, especially for breath-alcohol. If the arrest report doesn’t include such odor, then the suspect would probably be booked for driving under drugs’ influence. In other words, alcohol on a suspect’s breath would always be the observation encountered in every DUI case.

It’s also the most damaging because the jury would inevitably conclude that “when there’s smoke, there’s fire.” This means that alcohol present on the breath would lead to alcohol present in the body.

Fortunately, your DUI lawyer can raise two effective defense attacks:

1. -Question the source of smell
2. -Question the intoxication conclusion

One important point to take note: basic alcohol does not have any odor (or only a little). The fact is: the officer only smells the “flavoring odor” of the drink (wine, gin, beer, and scotch). And this odor can be deceptive as to the drink’s strength and amount consumed. For example, beer and wine will leave the strongest alcohol odor yet they’re the least intoxicating ones. In fact, a single beer can smell stronger on the breath than several martinis.

Furthermore, the smell of alcohol can be detected from a person who consumed a “near beer” beverage. These are non-alcoholic beverages made from yeast, hops, malt, and grain. It tastes, smells, and looks like regular beer but it does not contain any alcohol at all.

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Sam Shepard Caught In The DUI In The State Of Illinois

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Famous 65 year old actor Sam Shepard got caught up in the DUI ( drinking and driving under influence ) incident in Illinois. Shepard was given some testing by the police officer who used the breathalyzer device and they found he had twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood at the time he was pulled over. At the time he was pulled over police also discovered that he was driving approximately at 46 miles per hour in a zone where only 30 miles per hour was allowed. Shepard told the police on the scene of the drinking and driving incident that he was at a local bar and that he was on his way to a hotel as he was traveling from Minnesota to his home base in Kentucky.

Sam Shepard is best known for his performance in the drama called “Buried Child”, also he was an Oscar nominee in the 1983 for the movie called “The Right Stuff”. This is another case of celebrity based DUI or drinking under influence of alcohol.  Shepard was lucky enough that no accidents happened and that he was pulled over in time before something more dangerous happened to him while being intoxicated and under influence of alcohol.

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Breathlizer failures in dui testing

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

California dui cases can sometimes be determined by a simple error in the breathlizer test.  I was in a situation where my alchocol consumption that night was only one beer.  A random check point on a side road during christmas time was my turning point.  The breathlizer test showed that i was in fact over the limit.  However i tried to explain that it could not be possible, because i had consumed only one beer and had numerous witnesses to back that claim.  During the trial i was in fact able to prove that dui testing sometimes cannot be fully accurate.  There must be newer methods of more accurate testing implemented in California, because the current system is not complete. 

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