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Energy Drinks?
While nothing has come of it yet, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman’s recent decision to probe the ingredients and marketing of Monster, AMP, and 5-Hour Energy — which he believes are being “marketed to teenagers as a diet supplement” with misleading reports of their actual sugar and caffeine content — has the over-caffeinated among us concerned that these chemical-laden life savers will soon be ripped from our shaking hands.
If the ultra-wealthy soda industry couldn’t save their product, is there any hope for their much shoddier friends in the energy drink business?
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