Canada:  Health Canada Restricts Alcohol Content of Flavored Purified Beverages

Canada:  Health Canada Restricts Alcohol Content of Flavored Purified Beverages Flavored purified alcoholic beverages are a new and growing class of beverages in Canada that pose an increasing public health risk, especially to younger Canadians, Health Canada reports. Occupational Health & Safety May 29, 2019 Health Canada, via regulations published May 29, has restricted the amount […]

Worldwide Alcohol Consumption Declines -1.6%

Worldwide Alcohol Consumption Declines -1.6% IWSR 2018 Global Beverage Alcohol Data Shows Growth in Spirits, but Beer and Wine Volume is Down; Market Expected to Grow by 3% Over Next 5 Years Source: IWSR May 29, 2019 Beverage alcohol drinkers across the globe consumed a total of 27.6bn nine-litre cases of alcohol in 2018, but […]

Michigan: Can state regulators enforce liquor laws that federal courts have found unconstitutional?

Michigan: Can state regulators enforce liquor laws that federal courts have found unconstitutional? Source: http://irishliquorlawyer.com/ Sean O’Leary  May 28, 2019  A US District Court held that Michigan’s law banning out-of-state retailers from shipping wine into the state was unconstitutional. It held that the nondiscrimination principle which applied to suppliers in Granholm extended to retailers. Michigan sits […]