Dive Summary:

• Justin Prochnow, a lawyer familiar with the nutritional supplement market, has claimed the proposed Chicago ban of all energy drinks is riddled with legal inconsistencies and uninformed facts.
• The bill, proposed by Alderman Ed Burke, would ban the sale of energy drinks by categorizing them as drinks with more than 180 mg of caffeine, the sale of which could lead to hefty fines.
• Mr. Prochnow took biggest issue with the bill's claims that the energy drink market was completely unregulated, a fact, he says, is an egregious error.

From the article:

“If you are proposing a bill you should at least get your facts straight,” Prochnow said. “To say energy drinks are unregulated, or to say that people are selling them as supplements to avoid federal regulation . . . of course supplements are regulated by FDA. All energy drinks are regulated. The proposed ban is ridiculous. The text is replete with inaccurate or blatantly false information.