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Todate, three countries, Norway, Uruguay and Denmark, have banned Red Bull.ĭr. The manufacturers of Red Bull also say it should not be given to children. The European Union ruled that effective this year, Red Bull cans will have to carry a warning that it has high levels of caffeine. In July 2001 a 33-year-old Australian man died after drinking a mixture of Red Bull and Vodka.Īccording to the Telegraph newspaper, UK’s committee on toxicity in 2001 investigated Red Bull and found that it was safe but warned pregnant women against it as high caffeine levels could cause miscarriages. In 2007, an 18-year-old British basketballer died after consuming three cans of the drink. The paper further reported that the death of a 40-year-old British man in Oxford in April was thought to have been caused by the high levels of caffeine in Red Bull. School-going teenagers in Europe and America tend to drink such large amounts of Red Bull to stay awake at night. The 15-year-old suffered abnormal heartbeats referred to as palpitations. The company has, however, promised to study the findings of the Australian researchers.Īccording to The Times newspaper, early this year a teenager from Darlington was hospitalised after drinking eight cans of Red Bull. Last year, the company sold 3.5 million cans of the drink worldwide. She said Red Bull would not be selling in so many countries across the world if it was harmful. However, Red Bull Australia spokeswoman Linda Rychter said: “The study does not show effects which would go beyond drinking a normal cup of coffee.” Willoughby said though caffeine and taurine were individually beneficial to human beings, there might be “something quirky about the effect of the combination of the two.”

Complaints have also been raised about another ingredient, taurine. One can of Red Bull contains 80mg of caffeine, double the amount in a 300ml Coca Cola bottle. Health concerns over the energy drink have been reported worldwide. “If you have any predisposition to cardiovascular disease, then I would think twice about drinking it.” Willoughby cautioned that Red Bull could be deadly to people who already have stress or high blood pressure. They were like a patient with cardiovascular diseases,”Scott Willoughby of the cardiovascular Research Centre at the Royal Adelaide Hospital told an Australian newspaper. €œOne hour after they drank red bull, their blood system was no longer normal. IN an experiment with 30 healthy university students, scientists found that the drink caused blood to become sticky, putting the heart and blood system at a risk.