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> the FDA had banned this usage in 1948, and that is why it was removed! If it was never in 7Up to begin with, it seems odd to ban a thing that wasn't going on!

> the FDA had banned this usage in 1948, and that is why it was removed! If it was never in 7Up to begin with, it seems odd to ban a thing that wasn't going on! Did the FDA ever say if 7Up was the one using it?

ButlerianJihad 3d ago
7 Up says that 7 Up was using it. The primary marketing campaign of 7 Up from its inception was its lithiated benefit. Soda jerks were the baristas who sold carbonated beverages at drug-store counters. The soda pop, tonic beverage, patent medicine, and pharmaceutical industries were intertwined from the beginning. Lithiated beverages were all the rage in the 1930s and 1940s. It was equivalent to the coca beverages, which included coca wine, coca tonic, coca teas. There was lithia beer, lithia spring water (because there were natural springs containing some amount of dissolved lithium salts) and 7Up Lithiated Lemon Soda was a market leader. The "Lithiated" quality was on the bottle caps and it was in their advertisements. https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/lithium.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geolog... https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-toxic-history-of-soda-pop/ https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-toxic-history-... The FDA first banned lithium citrate in 1948. There were over a dozen deaths related to lithium toxicity. It is unclear which products caused these deaths. The FDA doesn't have to say which ones: they were identifying a controlled substance, not issuing a recall. There was yet another FDA ban in 1949. You see, doctors had begun recommending low-sodium diets to people with CVD and related illnesses. So people cut out table salt from their diets. But lithium chloride was commonly available in the same medium. So your wife and restaurant chefs cooked with a teaspoon of lithium chloride; your dinner table at home had a shaker of lithium chloride; people "salted to taste" with this marvelous salt substitute. But the lithiated effects were, again, lethal, and this secondary ban put the last nail in the coffin for the next 20 years before anyone started playing around with manic-depressive patients.

ButlerianJihad 3d ago

7 Up says that 7 Up was using it. The primary marketing campaign of 7 Up from its inception was its lithiated benefit. Soda jerks were the baristas who sold carbonated beverages at drug-store counters. The soda pop, tonic beverage, patent medicine, and pharmaceutical industries were intertwined from the beginning. Lithiated beverages were all the rage in the 1930s and 1940s. It was equivalent to the coca beverages, which included coca wine, coca tonic, coca teas. There was lithia beer, lithia spring water (because there were natural springs containing some amount of dissolved lithium salts) and 7Up Lithiated Lemon Soda was a market leader. The "Lithiated" quality was on the bottle caps and it was in their advertisements. https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/lithium.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geolog... https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-toxic-history-of-soda-pop/ https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-toxic-history-... The FDA first banned lithium citrate in 1948. There were over a dozen deaths related to lithium toxicity. It is unclear which products caused these deaths. The FDA doesn't have to say which ones: they were identifying a controlled substance, not issuing a recall. There was yet another FDA ban in 1949. You see, doctors had begun recommending low-sodium diets to people with CVD and related illnesses. So people cut out table salt from their diets. But lithium chloride was commonly available in the same medium. So your wife and restaurant chefs cooked with a teaspoon of lithium chloride; your dinner table at home had a shaker of lithium chloride; people "salted to taste" with this marvelous salt substitute. But the lithiated effects were, again, lethal, and this secondary ban put the last nail in the coffin for the next 20 years before anyone started playing around with manic-depressive patients.