Really good and really interesting post. I expect (and other readers maybe :)) new useful posts from you!
Good luck and successes in blogging!

Dori: I hadn’t even thought about the question of infants, which seems very real. I could also imagine that there could be allergy issues, or at least cases where some people responded differently (in a bad way) than most people. We’d clearly best be careful.

I have to agree with the FDA, if it turns out the acid has some beneficial effect (like predigestion of certain foods) and people start getting sick from the alcohol version, it would be best to be able to get rid of the bugs! I wonder if it would be safe for infants, for example, even tiny amounts of alcohol could be damaging I’d imagine, and if the “bugs” were on the loose, there would be babies doing shots.

See, we don’t need jet packs and hover cars to be living in the sci-fi future!