date:Apr 26, 2012
pesticides, he said.
In December and January Greenpeace took samples from nine well-known tea companies, purchasing 18 different kinds of medium-grade tea, all popular with consumers. These were tested by an accredited third-party laboratory which found traces of several banned pesticides including methomyl, endosulphan, and fenvalerate. All of the tea samples contained a variety of pesticides, 29 different pesticides in all.
Six of the samples contained more than 10 different kinds of pestici