President Announces HARP Extension. Start Saving Today http://www.ijlcicm.us/l/lt27MBOR4807YWYOF218IDHQL/505ULIIT1695JATRGW4053AXN1... Unsub- http://www.ijlcicm.us/l/lc15ASSB4807PUPVD218SFWFA/505IPIEY1695JYTRVV4053SMI1... For people seeking an energy boost, companies are increasing their offerings of foods with added caffeine. A new caffeinated gum may have gone too far.The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that it will investigate the safety of added caffeine and its effects on children and adolescents. The agency made the announcement just as Wrigley was rolling out Alert Energy Gum, a new product that includes as much caffeine as a half a cup of coffee in one piece and promises "the right energy, right now."Michael Taylor, FDA's deputy commissioner of foods, indicated that the proliferation of new foods with caffeine added -- especially the gum, which he equates to "four cups of coffee in your pocket" -- may even prompt the FDA to look closer at the way all food ingredients are regulated.The agency is already investigating the safety of energy drinks and energy shots, prompted by consumer reports of illness and death.Taylor said Monday that the only time FDA explicitly approved the added use of caffeine in a food or drink was in the 1950s for colas. The current proliferation of caffeine added to foods is "beyond anything FDA envisioned," Taylor said."It is disturbing," Taylor told The Associated Press. "We're concerned about whether they have been adequately evaluated."Caffeine has the regulatory classification of "generally recognized as safe," or GRAS, which means manufacturers can add it to products and then determine on their own whether th on.The Democratic primary pits U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, who has staked out more liberal positions, against fellow Rep. Stephen Lynch, a former ironworker who has tried to appeal to the party's working- and middle-class base.Lynch, 58, has had to defend his decision to vote against President Obama's 2010 health care law, while Markey, who won his first elected office while in law school, has fended off efforts to portray him as a Washington insider.Markey, 66, is the better-funded of the two Democratic candidates, having raised $4.8 million through the end of the last reporting period, compared with $1.5 million for Lynch.Markey has also benefited from outside spending. Of the more than $2.2 million spent by outside groups, nearly 84 percent went to Markey, an Associated Press review of Federal Election Commission reports found.In the town of Wayland in his congressional district, voters trickled in to polling places.Holly Zaitchik, a 66-year-old retired Boston University professor, said she voted for Markey because he's "he's done a terrific job of being there when anything important happens" in Washington.Zaitchik also thought the Marathon bombings might discourage turnout among voters still coping with the aftermath."There are a lot of people who are still down and not wanting to participate in things," she said. "It's disheartening."The GOP primary race is pitting three candidates: former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Michael Sulli