The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee formed inn 1980, provides expert scientific advice once every five years. Currently, the recommended limit for alcohol use in the US is limited to two drinks a day for men, and one for women; one drink is equivalent of 125 mL wine at 12.5% abv (alcohol by volume). The new draft report suggests one drink daily for both sexes.
Did you know that states have their own terms for drunk and impaired driving? Regardless of the name or acronym, it takes strong representation for DUI offenses if a person is looking to limit their sentencing. What about impaired driving, though?
The big New England convenience store chain is tapping out — for now — from its push to allow convenience stores and other food stores to sell alcohol.
Amazon.com Inc., the Seattle-based world’s No. 1 online retailer, had snatched a clearance to deliver alcohol in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, laying off the groundworks to mark up its first footprints into the world’s fifth-largest economy’s multi-billion dollar sector, a confidential document seen by a press agency reporter had unveiled on Sunday.
In a recent editorial, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy asked why hard liquor needs to be treated so much differently than beer and wine in state law. The answer is simple -- because distilled spirits are much stronger intoxicants than beer or wine.
(Mainichi Japan) "Strong" level chuhai (shochu highball) alcoholic drinks with a typical alcohol by volume (ABV) of around 7 to 9% have quickly become huge sellers in Japan, and while demand for other alcoholic drinks such as beer continues to shrink, they have become market-leading products.
A Europe-wide price comparison index found prices in Finland to be 91 percent higher than the EU average last year.
The Wine Institute, the state’s main lobbying trade group for the wine industry, has a new board and has elected John Sutton, chief financial officer of The Wine Group based out of Livermore, as its chairman.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s alcohol control authority is giving restaurants and bars a little more relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Young adults have radically reduced their alcohol consumption. Almost one in three young adults in Finland says they don't drink alcohol at all, according to a new survey conducted for the Finnish Federation of the Brewing and Soft Drinks industry.