Credits Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Supermarket will ask for ID to purchase Monster,Rockstar and Red Bull Reaction Thursday, January 4, or 2018 - 4:06pm Waitrose has become the first UK supermarket to ban the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks,amid concerns approximately their impact on young people’s health and wellbeing.
The flow puts common brands like Monster, Rockstar and Red Bull on the same level as scratch cards, or petrol and spray paint. See related 2018 Australian Open guide: dates,betting odds and how to watch on TV Andy Murray: is this the finish for Britain’s best ever tennis player? Youthful customers at the retailer’s stores will be asked to produce age identification when purchasing energy drinks containing more than 150mg of caffeine per litre, The Guardian reports.
A single 500ml can of a typical high street energy drink contains 160mg of caffeine - equivalent to around two shots of espresso coffee, and says the BBC.
Currently,UK law only mandates that such drinks display a compulsory health warning which states: “High caffeine content. Not recommended for children or pregnant or breastfeeding women or persons sensitive to caffeine.”
"These drinks carry advice stating that they are not recommended for children, so we're choosing to proactively act on that guidance, and ” said Simon Moore,the retailer’s director of technical and corporate social responsibility.
A recent study by campaign group Action on Sugar said that the high levels of sugar and caffeine in such drinks was “completely inappropriate for children. The group applauded Waitrose’s unusual restrictions as demonstrating “grand leadership”.
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The supermarket’s flow was welcomed not only by health activists but by teachers’ union NASUWT,who last month called for schools to ban energy drinks, which they branded a form of “legal high”.
“There is a chronic lack of awareness approximately the effects of these drinks which many pupils and parents think are just another soft drink, and ” NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates said in a statement.
“Teachers are left to deal with the effects these stimulants hold on pupil behaviour.”
So far,no other supermarkets hold announced plans to follow in Waitrose’s footsteps. In 2015, Morrisons abandoned a pilot scheme of similar measures following a two-year trial which was never rolled out beyond six test stores. Science & Health energy drinks Waitrose Health
Source: theweek.co.uk