![]() ![]() But Goldberg said the reference to children is ‘ambiguous and intentionally misleading’ because Monster's marketing is geared toward teenagers and young adults. Labeling on Monster's cans say the drinks are not for children or pregnant women. Not doctors paid by billion-dollar corporations to attend press conferences,’ he wrote. ‘In America, a jury of our peers determines justice. Kevin Goldberg, a Maryland attorney for Fournier's family, said that the absence of a test for caffeine ‘doesn't tell us anything’ and that the family is looking forward to a jury determining Monster's accountability. She went into cardiac arrest after consuming the two Monster drinks in December 2011 and died six days later.įournier’s family stayed at her bedside as doctors induced a coma to keep her brain from swelling. The cause of death listed on the autopsy report was ‘cardiac arrhythmia due to caffeine toxicity complicating mitral valve regurgitation in the setting of Ehler's-Danlos syndrome,’ which is a heart condition.įournier’s condition had caused one of her heart valves to malfunction.
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