{"id":10813,"date":"2016-08-23T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T10:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2016-09-08T16:49:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T16:49:52","slug":"powdered-alcohol-approved-by-government-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2016\/08\/powdered-alcohol-approved-by-government-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Powdered Alcohol Approved by Government Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Powdered alcohol was approved by a government agency on Tuesday,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>The Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>reports. The product, called \u201cPalcohol,\u201d could arrive in stores this summer. Last year the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) approved labels for powdered alcohol. It then said\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>the approval had been a mistake<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lipsmark, the company that makes Palcohol, plans to sell four powdered products: cosmopolitan, margarita, a vodka and a rum, the article notes. The product will be sold in foil pouches that can be used as a glass. A person pours in five ounces of water, zips up the bag and shakes it until the powder dissolves.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Several states, including Louisiana, South Carolina and Vermont, have\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>banned the use\/sale of powdered alcohol<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>, and a number of other states are considering similar legislation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer of New York\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>introduced a bill last year<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>to ban powdered alcohol. Last May Schumer urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prevent federal approval of powdered alcohol. He said it could become \u201cthe Kool-Aid of teen binge drinking.\u201d Schumer noted the product can be mixed with water, sprinkled on food or snorted. He asked the FDA to investigate the potential harmful effects of the product.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In a\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>statement released last May<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) said it agreed with Schumer. \u201cThis product is the latest in a long list of specialty alcohol fads,\u201d MADD said. \u201cAs with anything \u2018new,\u2019 this product may be attractive to youth. \u2026 In the case of Palcohol, we share Senator Schumer\u2019s view that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should carefully review this product as it would seem to have the potential to increase underage drinking.\u201d The FDA approved powdered alcohol last summer, the article notes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Source: www.drugfree.org<\/a> 12<\/span><\/span>th<\/span><\/span><\/sup> March 2015<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Powdered alcohol was approved by a government agency on Tuesday,\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0reports. The product, called \u201cPalcohol,\u201d could arrive in stores this summer. Last year the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) approved labels for powdered alcohol. It then said\u00a0the approval had been a mistake. Lipsmark, the company that makes Palcohol, plans to sell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-legal-sector","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}