Global News published this video item, entitled “Prime energy drink: Schumer asks US FDA to investigate beverage, calls it “cauldron of caffeine”” – below is their description.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate Prime, the wildly popular energy drink created by YouTube stars Logan Paul and KSI.
The refreshment was an immediate sensation when it launched in 2022, securing high profile sponsorships and becoming difficult to find in stores.
Global’s Mike Armstrong explains why the beverage’s contents and marketing are under scrutiny, and what people are being urged to do if they spot the drink being sold in Canada.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Olajide Olayinka Williams “JJ” Olatunji, better known as KSI, is an English YouTuber, internet personality, rapper, actor, and boxer. He is also a member and co-founder of the British YouTube group known as the Sidemen. In 2009, KSI registered his YouTube account under the name KSIOlajideBT.
