The study also estimates consumers’ exposure, through acute and chronic consumption, to some active ingredients found in energy drinks, primarily caffeine, taurine and D-glucurono-y-lactone.
The external study, commissioned under EFSA’s grants and procurement procedure, also examined specific energy drink consumption habits – co-consumption with alcohol or consumption associated with intense physical exercise – among adolescents and adults.
The results provide important data for EFSA’s forthcoming risk assessment on the safety of caffeine. In the context of a broader mandate, EFSA has been asked by the European Commission to determine whether and the extent to which the consumption of caffeine together with other food constituents such as alcohol or substances found in ‘energy’ drinks could present a risk to health as a result of interactions of these constituents.
Source: EFSA
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