Green Tea From Japan

• October 22, 2013
• Tea_Girls
• News

From the “News On Japan” web site comes the following report:

The Japanese green tea industry and hundreds of green tea growers around Japan are facing a crisis. Japan’s government has banned green tea leaves from four different prefectures from being sold. However, green tea leaves tested from the Shizuoka prefecture, hundreds of miles away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and presumably far away from possible radiation contamination has tested positive for radioactive cesium. The amounts detected were above the levels deemed safe by the Japanese government. Shizuoka is Japan’s most productive and famous green tea growing region, with many hillsides covered with green tea bushes. 5 green tea processing plants in the Warashina area of Shizuoka have been asked by the government to stop shipments of their green tea products.

Fortunateley, since our tea importers purchase and ship rather large quantities of tea, we re still selling Japanese green tea from before the Fukushima crisis.  So if you are loving Japanese green teas you can rest assured, that for now the tea here is safe to purchase and consume. (Click here to check out our green tea selection.)