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Bevande energetiche da bandire per meno di 16 anni

02/09/2025

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Glockass on 02/09/2025 22:01

I am having some serious Mandela effect with this, I could have sworn it was already banned for under 16s. Heck I worked in a supermarket and remember having to check if people were over 16 to buy energy drinks, and this was at least 5 years ago if not longer.
Georgist-Minarchist on 02/09/2025 22:34

they already are aren’t they , like we don’t have more genuine things to focus on
Cabrakan on 02/09/2025 22:45

that’s good

i hope this applies to ‘gamer’ branded powder and suppliments too

there’s really no reason and under 16s needs an energy kick, nevermind one sitting on their ass playing games
Routine-Stay-6857 on 02/09/2025 23:53

They’re only just being banned..? I’m 30 next year and my local Tesco has one guy who IDs me for them.

What a nob!
Cheap-Rate-8996 on 02/09/2025 23:59

Just want to make sure I understand this policy: A 15 year old won’t be allowed to buy a Red Bull with 80mg of caffeine, but will still be allowed to buy a triple shot espresso with 225mg of caffeine?

If that’s the case, then it seems like we’re not really regulating based on anything sensible like dosage, just what scares Daily Mail readers and what doesn’t.
Mitchverr on 03/09/2025 00:00

I just hope that theres a big media campaign alongside it for retail staff sake. The amount of parents who get uppity and abusive because you denied selling little 7 year old Timmy 8 cans of high end energy drinks when its “legal for them to buy it” currently is just sad.

Though I do wonder if they will go as far as banning/criminalizing proxy buying energy drinks too akin to tobacco/alcohol products, currently a big “get around” is the parent pretending the drink is for them when challenged and staff dont really have much recourse for saying no outside “company policy” which most people dont care about vs “it would be a crime to do that so no”.

Then again you have people who refuse to understand their 17 year old carrying alcohol to the till with them and only alcohol is a reason to deny sale due to potential proxy anyway.