"Lipton" bagged tea contains high toxic pesticides banned by the state.
China Radio Network reporter: Liu Li
the latest survey of green peace of the international environmental organization shows that green tea, jasmine tea and Tieguanyin tea bag of "Lipton" They all contain highly toxic pesticides banned by the state in tea. What is the standard of green peace released test report? How convincing is the value of the test? How did Unilever respond to this? Three kinds of tea bags, such as
Lipton green tea, contain high toxic pesticides that are prohibited by the state in tea, and four kinds of products contain 17 different pesticide residues. Following the April 11th Green Peace release of the 2012 tea pesticide investigation report, after the 9 tea brands sold tea containing banned pesticides, the results of the test for Lipton were more exciting. Wang Jing, the director of the green peace food and agricultural project, explained that they just wanted the enterprise to face and attach importance to the use of pesticides. The problem.
Wang Jing: whether it is the 9 domestic industrial brand survey reports published earlier, or the Lipton tea sample report, it is hoped to reveal the impact of the large amount of pesticide used in the tea plant on the safety of the tea products. The use of pesticides in the process of tea planting can not be avoided simply by a non - super national standard, which will have a negative impact on the tea farmers, the environment, and the consumers.
Lipton, a Unilever's brand, responded to Ceng Xiwen, vice president of North Asia, who understood the good intentions of green peace, but did not approve of their methods. Unilever believes that tea is not qualified, and the only basis is national standard.
Ceng Xiwen: I think the green peace report is a good idea. He hopes everyone can recognize the harm of pesticide residues to consumers, and hope that you can reduce the amount of pesticide and build a traceability system. But it can not be said that the problem is found, that is not enough, because now our equipment is very sophisticated, and 1/100000000 can be measured out. Therefore, you must not exceed the standard according to the national standard, and even the enterprise standard should be higher than the national compulsory standard. But you can't say that you have no standard.
Lipton black tea is a global distribution of raw materials, green tea raw materials come from Mount Huangshan in Anhui, jasmine tea is Guangxi, and Tieguanyin is a supplier to Fujian. Ceng Xiwen said that Lipton's same products will be produced in different countries and will follow the local testing standards. The inspection of Lipton tea bags in China is carried out in accordance with China's national standards.
Ceng Xiwen: there will be internal standards in our enterprise, which may be higher than the national standard, but all the products we have sent for inspection, the state authority including the quality inspection and Quarantine Bureau, including the import and export inspection and Quarantine Bureau, can only be measured by the national standard, and it is the national standard in the official inspection report.
Ceng Xiwen: last year there was another problem of finding rare earth in Lipton. Rare earth, the EU does not check, Japan does not check, the United States does not check, only the Chinese standard. But it can not be said that no investigation is conducted in the EU, so it should not be checked in China. So this must be in accordance with local standards, you can not say which standard is good, which standard is not good.
Unilever emphasizes that the products of Lipton are qualified, based on the national standards of China, and they will also regularly send their products to qualified inspection agencies for inspection. Greenpeace interpretation, their test results are third independent laboratories for 200 pesticide residues after scanning, detailed analysis concluded. What is the impact of the antagonism on this event? Can consumers be able to trust Lipton?
Wang Jing, director of the green peace food and agricultural project department, told reporters that our country's testing standards for pesticide residues in the process of tea planting are relatively loose, and the results of green peace testing can be very limited.
Wang Jing: pesticide residues are not equal to excessive pesticide residues. Again and again, the problem we put forward is not that all products are over standard and unqualified. In the whole country, our country only stipulates the residues of less than 30 kinds of pesticides in tea, and there may be hundreds of pesticides in the field. The business is closed to the question.
this morning, Unilever official micro-blog posted a piece of material, also said that China's national standard pesticide residue testing project only 9 items.
Ceng Xiwen, vice president of North Asia region, we also hope that the country can improve the standard. At the same time, our own standard may be stricter than the country, but I can not say that when I test, you take out a set of basis, because this itself, the first is not in line with the national conditions, second also It's not reasonable.
Ceng Xiwen said that this incident, Unilever will not have more oral responses, will take practical action to improve product quality. Especially in 2015, the raw materials of Lipton products will be purchased from the sustainable tea garden certified by the international environmental protection organization "Rainforest Alliance". At present, the first certified sustainable tea garden has been built in Yunnan.
Ceng Xiwen: it's a good idea to understand the intention of the Greenpeace, and we also understand the consumer's requirements for food safety. This can only alert us to the quality of our efforts, to speed up the progress of building a sustainable tea garden.