'Poisonous' Moscow Mule cups are under fire — here's how much you'd have to drink to be at risk

Moscow Mules' unique cups probably aren't poisoning you — but that doesn't mean drinkers can sleep easy just yet.

Iowa's Alcoholic Beverages Division recently issued an advisory bulletin warning against serving beverages in copper mugs. The reasoning: Iowa follows the Food and Drug Administration's code that prohibits copper from coming into direct contact with acidic foods with a pH below 6.0, including Moscow Mules.

I read another article attacking Moscow mules and immediate thought it was bullshit and this article does a good job confirming that.

Here's the problem with this government logic. Most people don't get enough copper in their diet anyways so a little more copper from these mugs is probably not that bad. The ph levels need to be like stomach acid levels of 1 or 2 ph to dissolve a lot of copper into the drink and acid doesn't really work very good at dissolving things when there's a bunch of ice in it. So even having a Moscow mule at like 3 or 4 ph with ice in it isn't going to dissolve that much copper.

Copper poisoning, similarly to lead or other metal poisoning, occurs after a period of exposure. According to food poisoning attorney Bill Marler, it would take years to ingest a dangerous amount of copper by drink drinking Moscow Mules alone.

"You'd have to drink from a copper cup every meal of every day for 25 years," Marler told Business Insider.

Basically what he's saying is you'd have to drink your Moscow Mule then shove the entire copper cup down your throat then you'd get copper poisoning and before you'd get the cup halfway down your throat you'd be dead of asphyxiation.

This just another example of government overreach were something sounds good and sounds like they care about your health and safety but in reality it's not true and just take more freedoms away from people.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/alcohol-is-more-poisonous-than-copper-in-moscow-mules-2017-8?r=UK&IR=T