The product itself, designed by Massachusetts based Breathable Foods, Inc., is not much different than an asthma-style inhaler, injecting finely grained caffeine and B vitamins into your mouth instead of albuterol.  It’s a fun and innovative new way to get your daily caffeine fix, but is it safe? The FDA apparently doesn’t think so.  Even though AeroShot is registered as an herbal supplement, allowing it to forego the decade long bureaucratic nightmare that the FDA refers to as their approval process, it hasn’t stopped the FDA from recently questioning the company about the safety of the new product.  Apparently, AeroShot’s convenience and accessibility is what makes the FDA think that the product is simply too easy to be abused.  Even though the FDA has not (yet) expressed interest in making AeroShot a scheduled (and therefore, federally regulated) product, their investigation into it itself seems like a misuse of tax money.  How warranted is the FDA’s interest? Let’s take a look at the facts for a second.  The FDA’s primary concern is that its accessibility mixed with its “high potency” is what could make the product so susceptible to abuse.  Compared to coffee and conventional energy drinks, AeroShot only delivers 100 mg of caffeine.  Although there are many factors that affect the caffeine level when brewing coffee, a medium cup of coffee at Starbucks generally has around 350 mg.  You would need to buy 3 or 4 AeroShots to get the same effect as one cup of coffee, which sounds harder to abuse since it’s less potent.  A can of Rockstar has over 200 mg of caffeine and a Monster has around 180 mg, not to mention other “natural” energy boosters such as guarana and taurine.  Has anyone died from these yet?