The Center for Science in the Public Interest has formally petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban retail sales of pure, powdered or liquid caffeine as a dietary supplement, saying it has caused illness and deaths.
The center called upon the FDA and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to ban the highly concentrated caffeine supplement because it presents a “significant or unreasonable risk of illness or injury” and an “imminent hazard to public health.”
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