TWG Tea Pesticides Residues & Eu Yan Sang

Now this is interesting. I just came upon this while searching for pesticides testing in Singapore.

http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/food/taiwan-food-and-drug-agency-finds-excessive-pesticide-residues-in-twg-tea-product-twg

So you love tea? Well, even some organic teas have pesticides residues, as tested in Canada.

In the TWG article, you can obviously hear the sour TWG defensive voice against their tea being rejected. Rejection hurts, doesn't it?

Luckily, I stopped drinking TWG teas a long time ago because of their expensive prices for not organic & weak teas.  Their Chamomile tea is the worst I've ever drank & in such horrid cloth bags that don't enhance the flavor or taste. Also, I dislike that they hire Filipino women (at Takashimaya) who pose for the money but know nothing else.

Let's take at look at what the TWG article says:

"Complicating the issue is how different territories and countries have different tests that incoming agricultural products are put through, and how tests are expensive and impossible to do for every one of the 300 pesticides in existence....

Unfortunately, we cannot test for every single chemical in the world in every batch. "

It means they let some pesticides get into your TWG tea because nobody cares to test for "every single chemical in the world". TWG only cares for your money.

"Another issue is how tea leaves in Taiwan are tested exactly like fruits and vegetables, as if they are going to be chewed and swallowed. However, residue concentrations would be indefinitely diluted in an infusion form, which is how teas are usually drunk, she added."

It means that it is true TWG teas contain pesticides. But hey, it's going to be diluted, so that's all right. Additionally, she didn't read this article which says that even at low concentrations, these pesticides have adverse effects on the body (of course).

"A year ago, mainboard-listed traditional Chinese medicine retailer Eu Yan Sang had to reassure customers and investors after a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alert warned of a lead-poisoning risk from its best-selling "Bo Ying Compound" product.

Eu Yan Sang said then that varying health standards were in force in different territories, and that the product in the US health scare was made in Hong Kong and meant only for sale there."

It means what is not allowed in one country is allowed in another, depending on which is more lax. Hong Kong got the lead but it was supposedly specially made for them.

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Incidentally, even honey (organic or not) is not safe.

(Now let me check my e-mail for that lousy pesticides testing company I contacted previously, so that I can avoid it. *checks* It was HSA. It was a foreigner who replied. Surname "Chung". Gave some brainless reply that they don't test for pesticides, but they can give me a quotation for what they can do. Crazy. What else can they possibly do if they can't test for pesticides? Test for "quality"??).
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