Friday the 13th: FDA’s Axe Falls
What Does it Mean

Dear Client:It was a dark Friday the 13th last week for some folks in the malt beverage business. This fight that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has picked with alcoholic energy drink makers, and by consequence with the bev-alc industry's usual federal regulator, the U.S. Tax and Trade Bureau, is serious business folks, with lots of moving parts and angles. To refresh in case you missed our issue Friday, the FDA sent love letters to nearly 30 caffeinated alcohol