Background. Increasing concern is evident about contamination of foodstuffs and natural health products. Methods. Common off-the-shelf varieties of black, green, white, and oolong teas sold in tea bags were used for analysis in this study. Toxic element testing was performed on 30 different teas by analyzing (i) tea leaves, (ii) tea steeped for 3-4 minutes, and (iii) tea steeped for 15-17 minut...

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This paper studies the technological innovation and new marketing strategies that enabled firms from traditional industries to pursue their existence in a disruptive environment. As case study, we follow an approach classical business history industry studies, focusing on Japanese tea analyse how it has innovated survive fast-changing environment over last five decades. Based various resources ...

Blending of different grades of tea is a very dusty process which exposes workers to a fine fluff. One hundred and twenty-five tea blenders with an average service of 22.9 years in the industry were interviewed according to a standard questionnaire, and submitted to a clinical and radiographical examination. The examination was repeated eight and 31 months later. A total of 46 workers (36%) had...

Tea is rich in polyphenols, vitamins, and protein, which good for health tastes great. As a result, tea very popular has become the second most beverage world after water. For this reason, it essential to improve yield quality of tea. In paper, we review application computer vision machine learning industry last decade, covering three crucial stages: cultivation, harvesting, processing We found...

With the improvement of people's living standards and health requirements, green, healthy high-quality beverages are highest requirements. Tea as a beverage requires ecological development in terms planting, processing, packaging sales. Combined with emphasis on rural revitalization during "14th Five-Year Plan" period, application circular economy to tea industry is general trend direction indu...

Woodfuels are the most heavily used energy source in sub-Saharan Africa. We analyzed the ecological impacts and modes of access of five user groups (domestic consumers, gin distillers, brick manufacturers, charcoal producers, and tea companies) drawing biomass energy from natural forests in western Uganda. While domestic consumers use the most species for fuelwood (>50), their consumption is li...