Children under the age of eight should avoid consuming slush ice drinks containing the sweetening agent glycerol, researchers suggest. It comes as a study highlighted a number of youngsters ...

Slush ice drinks made with glycerol have been found to make children sick. Doctors and medical scientists in Ireland and the UK investigated following reported sickness connected with the icy ...

The FSA has advised that children aged seven to ten should consume no more than 350ml of slush ice drinks per day - roughly equivalent to the size of a regular can of fizzy drink.

The FSA has asked retailers to support its advice by not offering free refills to children aged under 10. It has also reminded manufacturers of slush ice drink concentrates to use only the minimum ...

A new study warned children younger than eight shouldn't be given slush-ice drinks containing the sweetener glycerol after researchers tracked the cases of 21 kids who fell in after drinking them.

But the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has now warned under-sevens shouldn’t drink slushies at all – and those aged between seven and 10 shouldn’t drink more than 350ml of the drink per day.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has updated its advice that slush ice drinks containing glycerol are not suitable for children under seven. It follows research in the Archives of Diseases in Childhood ...

4-Year-Old Hospitalized, ‘Completely Unconscious’ 10 Minutes After Drinking Toxic Slushy: ‘Poison’ “I wouldn't wish what we went through on our worst enemy,” said Kim Moore after her ...