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Two senators frequently critical of FDA's regulation of dietary supplement manufacturing and marketing and a third member join the Center for Science in the Public Interest in asking the agency to ban retail sales of bulk powdered caffeine. “Despite several unintended and untimely deaths associated with powdered caffeine, the FDA has done little to regulate these products or adequately enforce the standards in place to protect Americans from the substantial risk associated with ingesting powdered caffeine in any form," Democrats Dick Durbin, IL, Richard Blumenthal, CT, and Sherrod Brown, OH, stated in an April 26 letter to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf. They added that "in the absence of strong regulatory action, companies are continuing to develop new delivery mechanisms and creative advertising ploys to attract new powdered caffeine users, and are doing so without relaying the serious health consequences of improper use." FDA in September submitted warning letters to five firms marketing bulk caffeine online, stating that the products “present a significant or unreasonable risk of illness or injury under the conditions of use recommended or suggested in the labeling" Also see "FDA Takes The Measure Of Bulk Caffeine In Warnings About Labels" - Pink Sheet, 7 September, 2015.. CSPI in 2014 submitted a citizen petition to FDA for a ban on bulk powdered caffeine; Durbin and Blumenthal noted the petition in a letter to the agency ([A#05150202002]).