The Federal Service on Alcohol Market Regulation is to check the amount of vitamins in low-alcoholic cocktails and energy drinks. The exceeding dose of vitamins in the drinks will bring to their banning, reports The Izvestiya.
First of all the regulation is concerned the popular energy drinks like Jaguar and Red Devil.
The content of vitamin B12 can not exceed 0.002 milligram in 100 cubic sm of a drink. Otherwise the sale of the drink will be banned. The utmost limit of vitamin concentration is set in a technical regulation “On safety of alcoholic production” worked out by the Customs Union between Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia.
The Federal Service on Alcohol Market Regulation planes to spend 2.2 million Rubles (about US$ 67 thousand) on developing the mythology of drinks analyses.
The low-alcoholic drinks take a pretty bit share in the Russian alcoholic market.
Sources: http://lenta.ru
Author: Irina Fomina