Danielle Race
Dr. Elisabeth McLaren
English 102
7 July 2014 Don’t blame it on the Pa Pa Palcohol Author Tuan C. Nguyen article, The Surprising History of Making Alcohol a Powdered Substance, is about “a new form of powerized alcohol...product [that] has made it farther than any other we can trace.” Nguyen sets up history leading up to and including today happenings with Palcohol. Similar to
Nguyen article, Future of muchhyped Palcohol is uncertain, by Lynn Walsh, is about how news broke of the “new product Palcohol, turns water into rum, vodka, margaritas and more, federal approval spread like wildfire on the internet and social media sites, only to be quickly followed by news that approval was given in “error.”” After the error “U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer [released new release and letter to a commissioner to] call on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to step in and immediately halt Palcohol a new and obviously dangerous powdered alcoholic product from getting federal approval and hitting store shelves this fall.” Most were insinuating that the error was the product itself. Backdoor Pharmacist, contributing writer to website Animal, blogs about how “[t]he hazards of Palcohol aren’t pharmacological, technological, nor regulatory…[it] is a social problem.,”
All authors, other than Senator Schumer, appear to have the same opinion of Palcohol heading into the right direction of approval and eventually selling. Palcohol website states that there “will be made in two different formulations, a Beverage version with seven flavors (Vodka, Rum, Cosmopolitan, Mojito,
Powederita (margaretta), and Lemon drop) and an Industrial Formulation (noningestible).”
Race 2 The Surprising History of Making Alcohol a Powdered Substance is more in depth of the history and variety of attempts. Powdered Alcohol: Better Drinking Through Chemistry, by the Backdoor
Pharmacist, and Future of muchhyped Palcohol is