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birdwatcherColumbia Chronicle -- Art Resnick, spokesman for the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, said the Bureau received inquiries about obtaining label approval for Lucid in 2006.
“Upon testing those products, we determined that they contain less than 10 parts [of thujone] per million and we approved it,” Resnick said. “We recognize these approved products are just the same as other distilled spirits.”
Because Lucid contains the same ingredients as other traditional absinthe brands, including grand wormwood, florence fennel and green anise, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau remained skeptical.
Gurfein said approval for an alcohol product can typically take six to eight weeks to be effectively tested, but for Lucid, the federal government spent 12 months on informal and formal proceedings in order to approve the first genuine absinthe, Lucid, in almost a century.
“The real fight with the government wasn’t even about what was in the bottle, it was a fight about the word absinthe,” Gurfein said. “They felt that even if the contents were OK, the word absinthe was some sort of a code for drugs or hallucinations. We [had to] show the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau that Lucid, just like traditional absinthe, did not contain any levels of any chemicals that would be prohibited today.”
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“Upon testing those products, we determined that they contain less than 10 parts [of thujone] per million and we approved it,” Resnick said. “We recognize these approved products are just the same as other distilled spirits.”
Because Lucid contains the same ingredients as other traditional absinthe brands, including grand wormwood, florence fennel and green anise, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau remained skeptical.
Gurfein said approval for an alcohol product can typically take six to eight weeks to be effectively tested, but for Lucid, the federal government spent 12 months on informal and formal proceedings in order to approve the first genuine absinthe, Lucid, in almost a century.
“The real fight with the government wasn’t even about what was in the bottle, it was a fight about the word absinthe,” Gurfein said. “They felt that even if the contents were OK, the word absinthe was some sort of a code for drugs or hallucinations. We [had to] show the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau that Lucid, just like traditional absinthe, did not contain any levels of any chemicals that would be prohibited today.”
Уговорили!!! Не буду покупать!
