Government to ban sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s

Evidence links the drinks to negative impacts on children’s physical and mental health, sleep quality, and educational outcomes

Move backed by parents and teachers and will deliver significant long term health benefits as part of government’s Plan for Change

Children will be protected from the harm caused by high-caffeine energy drinks under new proposals to ban their sale to under-16s.

Plans set out today will help boost kids’ health by stopping retailers from selling the drinks to children in a move that could prevent obesity in up to 40,000 children and deliver health benefits worth tens of millions of pounds.

Around 100,000 children consume at least one high caffeine energy drink every day. There is growing evidenc

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