Alcohol powder

However, as of 4 January 2016, the product is not yet available for sale and legalization remains controversial due to public-health and other concerns.

(ja:佐藤食品工業 (愛知県))[2][3] A year later, in 1967, Sato began production and sales of various kinds of "high content alcohol powder Alcock" ("高含度アルコール粉末「アルコック」").

Other than purposes for test sale, research, etc., it has never been sold for eating or drinking, including personal use or home use.

[9][13] In June 1982, Sato started production and sales for the drinking powdered alcohol, as test case.

Excessive consumption of alcohol, powdered or liquid, can result in acute overdose, intoxication-related accidental injury, compromised judgment, and longer-term negative health consequences including liver disease, cancer, and physiologic dependence.

An auxiliary material for a capsule may be any readily water-soluble substance (e.g. carbohydrate such as dextrins (starch hydrolyzate), protein such as gelatin).

The spraying converts the liquid to small drops (up to several hundred μm (micrometers) in diameter), and the heat causes the hydrous dextrin to form a film.

[22] Due to the volatility of alcohol, relatively higher than water, time-consuming methods, such as freeze drying, should not be used.

Additionally, powdered alcohol's market share is currently too small to be considered as a statistical item in Japanese tax reports.

[25] Powdered alcohol is found in some mass production foods, used in small amounts (as are other additives).

In 1977, the Associated Press delivered the first news story in the United States about powdered alcohol, which was then an unprecedented product.

Investors were quoted as saying that they "hope[d] to revolutionize the liquor business with a product that's easy to carry, cheap and potent".

[32] The NSW Government also recognises powdered alcohol an undesirable product under the Liquor Regulation Act 2018.

In Japan, powdered alcohol is officially called, funmatsu-shu (ja:粉末酒, lit.

[14] In 2007, four food technology students in the Netherlands invented a powdered alcohol product called "Booz2go".

[38] They claimed that when mixed with water, the powder would produce a bubbly, lime-colored and lime-flavored drink, with 3% alcohol.

They compared the drink to alcopops like Bacardi Breezer and said they expected the relatively low alcohol content would be popular with the young segment.

However, when dissolved in water, it would be subject to the Code, according to Director Wim van Dalen of the Dutch National Foundation for Alcohol Prevention.

Von Dalen commented that while he generally did not support new alcoholic drinks, he doubted the powder would become attractive.

[40] According to one Russian news site, in 2009, a Professor at Saint Petersburg Technological University named Yevgeny Moskalev invented and patented a method of creating alcohol powder.

In this method, melted wax (stearic acid) is stirred, and the alcoholic drink is poured in.

In 2008, Pulver Spirits began developing a line of alcohol powder products to be marketed in the United States.

The marketing was reportedly intended to be in full compliance with alcohol regulations and targeted at adults of legal drinking age.

[52] By November 2015, most states had introduced legislation and laws to regulate or ban powdered alcohol.

The Government is aware of powdered alcohol being marketed and made available in the coming years to buy in England and Wales.