The FDA stopped by my work today and confiscated all of the Four Loko, High Gravity, and Joose alcoholic beverages. They were kinda dicks about it, too.

hasnothingtosay · 1 year

I think you just got robbed.

hrtattx · 1 year

Yeah the Federal Reserve stopped my house today too to confiscate all my money. Thought it was kinda weird but whatever.

PacketScan · 1 year

You got robbed. All we heard was no more orders or delivery and stuck with any stock to sell off.

Quasimofo · 1 year

I'm going to try this "were confiscating all your patron and red bull, I'm from the DOE, my partner from the department of labor has some questions about your frozen pizzas."

glassuser · 1 year

This sounds completely legit.

I think I'm going to try this today too!

Vee_Vee · 1 year

Did their badges look like this, because that's not the FDA?

reverendnathan · 1 year

Wait, are they actually seizing products? I just thought they were sending letters out warning manufactures of health risks:

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm234109.htm

I agree. I think you were robbed.

douchymcface · 1 year

holy shit i think you got robbed by the most brilliant college students ever.

nanowerx · 1 year

This shit is getting out of hand. So what if it has juice in it or is an energy drink....IT HAS FUCKING ALCOHOL IN IT AND YOU CAN ONLY FIND IT IN THE BEER COOLER!!!!! This nanny state crap is starting to piss me off. I am a responsible adult who doesnt care for alcohol too much (Im a toker) but when I do drink I like stuff like Sparks or Four Loko because it gets me buzzed quick without too much 'alcohol' taste. So now, because "oh my God, kids might get it," I am being denied.

Land of the free?

Ghstfce · 1 year

You know who else targeted the Joose...

cap0319 · 1 year

Yes, because millions of deaths from alcohol abuse are just fine, but a couple idiots with alcohol+energy drinks win Darwin awards and we gotta start banning shit.

FDA, I be disappoint.

CuntSmellersAndSons · 1 year

FDA? I thought this was ATF territory... or not?

capecodcarl · 1 year

I think I'll have a double shot of vodka, then drink a cup of strong coffee.

danbfree · 1 year

...all of the caffeinated beers, besides Sparks...

Sparks hasn't caffeine in it for over 2 years... You work selling alcoholic beverages and don't know this?

Baizi · 1 year

Best buy just walked in my apartment and grabbed every electronic device I own. Wait... there goes my laptop

[deleted] · 1 year

I call shenanigans.

philibuster · 1 year

I'm just gonna buy the caffeine free 4loco's and a 5 hour energy and shotgun the 5 hour energy. It'll be great but cost a little more.

bolllocks · 1 year

"Hi, We're with the FDA Flashes Fake Badge and we're here to confiscate all of your caffeinated alcoholic beverages"... LOL I am doing this tomorrow

KimJongChill · 1 year

I don't really care if the FDA bans this caffeinated malt liquor ghetto slime as long as they don't come after my 96 proof gin and the caffeine pills I pop whenever I drink it.

megabucks · 1 year

Are they alcoholic energy drinks?

If so the notice on the ban was made public early this week. If not, no the FDA doesn't have to give notice nor Health Canada.

They both have an 'interpretation of regulation' strategy so no matter what action they take, you can't do a thing about it.

If you call in the police to complain about a theft happening, the police will show up and they will enforce the seizure.

The ban is following up heart health concerns, from my background in health, I never found it a smart idea to be mixing blood thinning energy drinks with alcohol, another blood thinner. But that's just my opinion.

gravyleaves · 1 year

This seems legit... Would be just as believable if he claimed the vegan police did it.

kilokhan · 1 year

It looks like they are only targeting Four Loko. I work at a liquor store in NJ. We marked up all of our Four Loko to around $5 a can because we are no longer allowed to get any more from the distributor, but we can sell what we have left in stock.

They will probably ban it in NJ soon. I recall reading that senator Schumer from NY is trying to get the FDA to ban it entirely (Caffeinted alcoholic beverages). I hadn't yet heard that the FDA effectively banned the stuff, though. I'm pretty sure we'd know about that right away.

We have other highly caffeinated, high-proof alcohol products on sale though; we have a vodka that has caffeine and guarana in it and we can still sell that just fine. Oh well.

KorgRue · 1 year

This whole thing is bullshit.

Sparks has been on the market for YEARS. Way before any of these other alcoholic energy drinks were. Sparks never got any FDA attention, now all of a sudden there is a rush to remove them from the market.

This whole attack on the product is ridiculous.

upagainst · 1 year

So what state was this in? In other words, should I start stocking up on this stuff (TX)?

umilmi81 · 1 year

You have been protect citizen.

bLazeni · 1 year

This is by far the stupidest F'ing ban. I will just start buying 5 hours and 4 lokos and mixing them. The FDA, FCC and any other stupid government type agency can go F off. There will never be a way to stop mixing caffeine and alcohol, unless you ban one or both, and even then you can still get a hold of them.

NauticalInsanity · 1 year

Having read up on these drinks, the moratorium on these is perfectly within the grounds of the FDA. The combination of caffeine and alcohol is particularly nasty as the caffeine reduces some of the side effects of alcohol, making moderated consumption incredibly difficult. Sure it's easy to recreate them by mixing red bull and vodka and the FDA isn't stopping you from doing that, just like the FDA isn't stopping you from making your own rat poison in the basement of your house. And while people should be educated enough to know not to consume rat poison, that doesn't mean the FDA shouldn't have the regulatory authority to stop you from putting it on the shelf and marketing it as edible.

[deleted] · 1 year

Are you reimbursed ?

kindernacht · 1 year

dammit, and they never even made it to being sold anywhere around me that i could find...and banned already. such a shame :(

phoenix3d · 1 year

COLGATE CAVITY PATROL?!

alok0 · 1 year

So uh,... Jagerbombs anyone?

skwishems · 1 year

Did the "culprit" wear a large overcoat and sway awkwardly?

Did they have a large moustache and glasses?

The ol' three friends on each others shoulders trick,

Most flawless trick known to man

Teufel27 · 1 year

Im sick of hearing about how unconstitutional "this and that" are. I understand that things such as the TSA are WAY more severe on the scale but WTF, how can they ban a fucking drink!? Is it just me that finds this totally unconstitutional as well and why the fuck is nobody doing anything about it? I dont give a fuck if the government is shitting on our rights of a search and seizure or if theyre trying to tell us that we cannot consume a perfectly legal drink...for gods sake, it's still shitting on the same scroll of papers that we get so butt hurt about on any other topic. seriously, wtf redditors...raise some hell.

Badjo · 1 year

You're a fucking idiot. This wasn't the FDA. They don't seize items which aren't prohibited... yet.

Idiot.

slyf · 1 year

Uhmm.just make your own?

Diggnan · 1 year

Isn't living in a nanny state fun!?

trackerbishop · 1 year

FDA = controlling what you eat, diluting the "organic" label so companies don't really have to follow all the guidelines one would expect, and letting big companies like glaxosmithkline only submit studies which backup their claims so they can get their drugs approved. Oh, they also banned tryptophan using a false flag situation, and coincidentally shortly thereafter all the ssri's came out.

brockkcorb · 1 year

Federal Douche Administration? sounds about right...

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