Category: Regulatory history

In 1969, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed the popular artificial sweetener cyclamate from the market. This decision, based on controversial animal studies, launched a massive public health debate surrounding why was cyclamate banned.

In 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning that effectively banned caffeinated alcoholic beverages, including the original Four Loko formula, nationwide. Before this federal action, multiple individual states had already taken steps to ban or limit sales of the controversial product, providing an answer to the question of what state is Four Loko banned in and in what context.