Now you can use a new excuse, when you lie on the couch on Sunday morning and can’t move you because of a hangover.
the Court in the German city of Frankfurt has decided a case where it was determined that a Hangover is a disease in the body.
the Proceedings from the 23. september referred to a company that sold powdered drinks and small ‘shots’ as a dietary supplement, which according to the company was to prevent the hangover.
But if the hangover of reality, is a disease in the body, so be attributed to the nutritional supplements are a medical effect on the body, which is not allowed, when there is talk of an authorised medicinal product.
– Information about a food must not ascribe to it any properties of prevention, treatment or cure of a human disease or give rise to the impression of this property, was, according to the press release said in court.
In the press release defines the also a hangover as an illness:
Disease is any disturbance of the body’s normal character or normal activity. It also applies to a minor or short term disruption, was said in court.
‘Here is the hangover with symptoms such as fatigue, nausea and headache described. Such symptoms would be outside of the natural variation in the human body. They do not occur as a result of the body’s up and downs, but as a result of alcohol consumption’, writes the court in the press release.
however, It is not safe, that your employer can agree, if you are calling in to report you sick because of a hangover…
