Mydnight wrote:
> I never saw green tea rinsed before until I moved to Southern China.
> The green tea I had drank before was beautifully clean...the stuff
> here that you get may or may not contain pencil lead...

It would be difficult to identify a more innocuous adulterant than
pencil lead, which consists mainly of clay and graphite and is entirely
insoluble in water. However, the point stands.

Is there any progress on credible organic standards and labeling in China?

-DM

OK, I need to ask the question - why pencil lead ?

Cheers
Mal
Oz

"DogMa" > wrote in message
...
> Mydnight wrote:
>> I never saw green tea rinsed before until I moved to Southern China.
>> The green tea I had drank before was beautifully clean...the stuff
>> here that you get may or may not contain pencil lead...
>
> It would be difficult to identify a more innocuous adulterant than pencil
> lead, which consists mainly of clay and graphite and is entirely insoluble
> in water. However, the point stands.
>
> Is there any progress on credible organic standards and labeling in China?
>
> -DM

On Apr 26, 5:27 am, DogMa > wrote:
> Mydnight wrote:
> > I never saw green tea rinsed before until I moved to Southern China.
> > The green tea I had drank before was beautifully clean...the stuff
> > here that you get may or may not contain pencil lead...
>
> It would be difficult to identify a more innocuous adulterant than
> pencil lead, which consists mainly of clay and graphite and is entirely
> insoluble in water. However, the point stands.
>
> Is there any progress on credible organic standards and labeling in China?
>
> -DM

Ya'll can do a search on a previous post I made about contamination
with lead. I provided a link that did research on some tea in
Guangzhou's Fangcun tea market. The found things ranging from DDT to
lead in various teas.