Pins matching tag:"Warning Labels"

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly signs regulations requiring every alcohol container sold in Ireland to warn of liver disease, fatal cancers and drinking in pregnancy and to show grams of alcohol and calories, from 22 May 2026.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's advisory names alcohol the third-leading preventable cause of cancer in the US, behind about 100,000 cases and 20,000 deaths a year, and asks Congress to add a cancer warning to the label unchanged since 1988.

Cancer, liver-disease and pregnancy warnings become mandatory on every alcohol container sold in Ireland, after the government pushed the start from 22 May 2026 to 3 September 2028 citing economic circumstances.