The Fear - 10/8/2012 23:54
No idea how alarmist or true this is, prob somewhere in the middle?!
http://www.topix.com/forum/world/australia/T0V9KR3HV1JBP7V3M
French ban over health concerns
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/5753.php
Wiki says not banned in France any more
Red Bull did not get market approval in France, Denmark, and Norway[33] for several years, but the energy drink is now on sale in all 27 EU Member States and in 164 countries around the world.
The French approval process started in 1996 with concerns about taurine, a normal body constituent and also naturally present in the human diet (e.g., scallops, fish, poultry). This meant the drink could not be sold as-is in France. Instead, a different recipe that did not contain the ingredient was introduced. The refusal of market approval was challenged by the European Commission and partially upheld by the European Court of Justice in 2004,[33] before the French food safety agency relented in 2008 after being unable to prove definitively the existence of any health risk, taurine-related or not.[34]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull