> Good news is that DDT and many other controlled pesticides aren't
> actually particularly bad for people in applied amounts. (I'm not sure
> that there is even a single example of someone dying from ingesting
> grams of the stuff, which happened not infrequently.) DDT was banned
> because - being fat-soluble and metabolized only very slowly - it
> concentrates up the food chain. So top-predator birds had problems with
> egg shell development. We'd have to eat the cats that fed on the mice
> that ate the beetles that ate the Pu-erh weevils...
>
> I'm not a medic or biologist, but my impression is that many of the
> really nasty pesticides like cholinesterase inhibitors have high acute
> toxicity (e.g. to field workers) but very little chronic risk in lower
> doses. Kind of the opposite of heavy-metal poisoning, like recent lead
> problems. FWIW, I don't worry about it, and I do think a lot about food
> safety.
>
> -DM

Dogma/Mynight

I am with Dogma with this one. I think environmental pollution (road
traffic, air, water, lead, fluoride etc) are a more serious threat
than pesticides itself.

Tea garden situated in high attitude sloping land tend to use little
pesticide anyway. Usually these best parts of tea garden are used to
make the really high grades, like the better tasting Tieguanyin
Wangs.The price is usually a reflection of the location of the same
tea garden.

Just my opinion. I want to test their teas to be sure, anyway.

Julian
http://www.amazing-green-tea.com