Holding Back Coffee Beans in Vietnam
Analysts predict a recovery in global coffee prices in 2020 due to declining production and some hoarding in Vietnam. Read more
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Tiny Plastic Particles Raise Big Concerns
Tea industry suppliers rush to defend the publicly maligned tea bag following media coverage of a research paper that revealed heat-sealed pyramid bags made of nylon and PET release billions of nanoplastic particles during a five-minute steep. Read more
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Adaptive Bagging
Modern tea bagging lines are marvels of ingenuity; compact and complex machines that perform a seemingly simply task. Read more
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Retaining Tea’s Healthy Halo
Tests for food safety do not assess plastic leachate from tea bags under electron microscopes with resolutions millions of times greater than conventional microscopes. Those tests are underway. No one really knows if these very, very small micro- and nano-particles when ingested in small amounts are harmless but researchers calculate the average person ingests hundreds of thousands of particles a year from food, air and some types of tea bags. “That’s a non-trivial dose.”
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