Powdered Alcohol?!
Powdered Alcohol?
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch students have invented powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors.
The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gramme packets that cost 1-1.5 euros (70 pence-1 pound).
Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-coloured and -flavoured drink with just 3 percent alcohol content.
MY QUESTIONS :
Should parents worry?
Would you purchase ?
( i would give it a go personally after it is officially approved!)
If you are a parent, would you let your kids try it ( it has a low alchol content)
to read more on the new invention click / copy and paste for news article.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070606/t...
Answers:
Parents shouldn't worry and teenage drinkers shouldn't get their hopes up.
This story is completely inaccurate from top to bottom.
The Dutch students didn't invent "powdered alchohol;" the idea they're using was patented in 1976 by 2 American chemists working for General Foods (now Kraft). The Dutch students got some of the base ingredient _ alcohol absorbed in dextrin _ from a company that makes it. They just added flavoring and mock-up packaging.
They don't have a working product, so it's not "available" for sale in the Netherlands (or anywhere), at any price.
The product they made contains alcohol, so that has to be on the label under European law. It's not clear whether it could be sold to minors (since Dutch alcohol laws were written with alcoholic drinks in mind), but it's clear they wouldn't be allowed to have it once they added water.
It's very nasty-tasting with or without water, which is one reason General Foods didn't try marketing it in the U.S.
A German company that tried to introduce a similar product two years ago quickly went out of business for that reason. Also, no stores were willling to carry it.
And of course, it's not that difficult for kids to get hold of actual alcohol drinks like Bacardi Breezers, without monkeying around with powders.
Nice reporting Reuters.
Source(s):
http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/39565...
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564...
Note Subyou website no longer works
Same thing is true of Senba in the United States.
http://www.senbausa.com/import.html...
(in Dutch)
http://www.parool.nl/nieuws/2007/mei/25/...
thats wrong.... Can we snort it?
i just read the article on yahoo - id try it if it was officially approved too but i think its wrong that it would be legal for children to buy it - wheres the sense of that !!!
It should be banned by all the EU countries before it even leaves the laboratory, it will not take the average kid 5 minutes to find a way to mix it with less water or even put it into another drink to get a bigger kick, the students may be very clever scientists but they are not very clever when it comes to the real life
Would you then be done for dry driving and how would you describe the hangover? A hang-out-to-dry-over?
Another thought would bottle banks be obsolete?
Why is it any different to ordinary alcohol - its a liquid in the end?!
There's a reason kids aren't supposed to drink alcohol - it's a drug. Low alcohol, high alcohol, it's all the same. If they invented a version of cocaine diluted in water, would you let your kids have that?!
So yes, parents should worry and no I wouldn't purchase it. I wouldn't let my kids drink anything that contained alcohol until they are old enough to decide for themselves whether or not they should consume a drug, and not until they are at a legal age.
it depends on the parents, some parents let their kids get away with anything, others dont and are more strict
personally, i dont think parents should worry. if they've raised their kids in the right way and told them the stuff they should know about drinking; their child would know the limit, and wouldnt be stupid about drinking. i think the adults should supply the kids with a certain amount of booze aswell, and let them drink it in the house, at least that way they know where they're getting it from and how much they're having, and at the end of the day, if they cant get booze from parents, they'll just get it some other way.
but to avoid trouble in the long run, they just shouldnt expose kids to drinking in the first place!
Some PPL have a short memory. 200 years ago "short" beer was given to children as the water around was not to be trusted. That was about 3% alcohol. Young kids have to learn how to drink sensibly, for some of them this includes a few sessions of hugging the toilet. It is a rite of passage into adulthood, along with a bit of spliff, losing your cherry, partying hard and finding someone nice to be with at the end of it all. There are worse things in the world than doctoring powdered booze as a youthful experiment to get more bang for your buck, don't worry about your children, they will grow up strong and tall and you will be proud of them.
for me as an adult i would try it if approved.as for kids it is wrong totally!!!!!
I want to know where i can get some in the US??