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_bz2r on Oct 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Stream...

You seem like you are knowledgeable about these things... how do they measure the LD50 in humans?

jhardy54 on Oct 1, 2015 [–]

We kill mice, rats, hamsters, rabbits, and dogs with caffeine, and extrapolate the LD50 from our test data. Animal testing can be really awful.

Wingman4l7 on Oct 2, 2015 | [–]

The alternative is not knowing the LD50 of caffeine for humans.

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