Technical point

According to the Vancouver Sun, Canada has decided not to follow the U.S. lead to ban alcoholic beverages containing caffeine. The legal reasoning behind the U.S. decision, which considers the caffeine an unsafe additive, is explained soberly by a former FDA employee:

"The presumption under the law here in the U.S. is if you're using a food additive in a manner that is not approved by the FDA, then it is unsafe as a matter of law, even if it doesn't pose a risk," said Carvajal, who worked at the FDA for five years until leaving in 2007.

"It's a technical point, but we could have something here that is both unsafe in the legal sense and unsafe in the everyday meaning of that word."

That is a very nice technical point.