Rare limits affect exports of tea experts called to reassess

Recently, Jiangsu Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau checks tea products found in Xuzhou City, Ruby Chang Limited production oolong tea , a rare limited value reaches 3.7 times the standard requirements .

Not long before , Jiangsu Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau also reported in the second quarter of the provincial quality supervision and inspection results , including seven high tea brand tea Rare Limited ( the total amount of rare earth oxides ) project failed.

According to the rule of law weekend reporter, current GB2762-2005 " of contaminants in foods " stipulates that the tea industry in the rare earth content values ​​up to 2mg/kg, namely tea rare earth content not exceeding two millionths , and corn ( 2327 , -9.00 , -0.39% ) , wheat and other food categories the same standard .

"This is a typical Chinese standards , but many Chinese tea enterprises did not own standards , we take very seriously , procurement will be relatively cautious ." Associated British Foods plc ( hereinafter referred to as " ABF " ) , general manager of Greater China Su Zhijie recently publicly stated .

Meanwhile, there is news that China's tea products due to excessive levels of rare earth affected tea exports . It also makes a unique Chinese tea "rare earth limits " once again brought to the cusp .

" In the industry, tea Rare limits were plagued by not one or two days ." Xiamen Yun, director of operations Fancheng Sheng Ming Tea sighed .

"Unlike other pesticide limits is different is that people want a lot of tea this standard compliance can not be achieved ." Xiamen Ming Tong Tea Co., Ltd. , Mr. Xi points to the person in charge of many people's thoughts tea .

So , what kind of standards to allow foreign investors puzzled by the prohibitive for Chinese tea , tea industry and the domestic industry practitioners very tangled it ?

Hinder foreign procurement

Five cloud Tea Group Vice President Ouyang Tao Kun said, because no tea rare earth content of foreign -related standards, making a large number of multinational companies can not purchase Chinese tea .

Foreign merchants often when in the inquiry , whether the product will be on earth to ensure compliance with the standard is quite concerned . However, the standard of the current lot of tea industry peers is too harsh , in order to make tea meet the standards , companies would have to pay exorbitant costs, thus causing prices to uncompetitive.

Analysis of the industry last year, China's tea export volume decreased by 2.82% , and this situation is not unrelated.

Reporters learned that foreign originally heard tea contains rare , often quite surprised . However, through exchanges with the domestic merchants after they discovered the rare earth in China along with the process of tea plantation , tea products appearing in almost inevitable . In the face of this situation , foreign investors will often purchase a detailed verification of tea sources to find quality products.

ABF 's Twinings tea buyers Nick told reporters , before purchasing tea , they often need to ask a few questions traders : "tea come from ? Fertilization and growth process of how de-worming ? Can ensure rare earth content is not excessive ? "But a lot of tea traders end up unable to give a satisfactory answer.

There are some Chinese tea merchants for clear explanation of rare earth content standards , which makes it not quite understand the criteria for the foreign increasingly confused. So many foreign investors would choose a more appropriate way , directly from the tea base receipt.

"At least from tea production base close to the tea -related test data are very clear ." Nick said that .

However, there are drawbacks from the base procurement that procurement costs will increase.

For foreign and want to purchase directly from Chinese tea tea base , you need to select via certified products comply with EU standards rare earth content of the tea base. And this tea bases are few and far in China , mainly in Zhejiang, Yunnan , Anhui and other places. This makes the cost of acquiring foreign traders buy tea rather than through much higher .

Reporters from China Import and Export Chamber of Commerce learned native foods , such as excessive pesticide residues due to rare earth content detection problem , in 2012 , China 's tea exports to the EU fell by 5.2% year on year , the amount of tea exports to Japan decreased by 4.3%.

In this regard, Fancheng Sheng believes that today the tea industry, pesticide testing standards with international standards have not been to some extent hindered the multinational companies in China to carry out large-scale procurement. Meanwhile, foreign direct Rare limits Forced closing tea from tea base , but also restricts the export of China's tea exports in bulk low-end model from the export of raw materials to high-end tea tea transformation.

"Qualified" distant

Since the earth limits on such a huge impact on the tea industry , tea merchants why not " repentant " to the standard line ?

"We do not want to, but can not ." When a reporter through Alibaba [ microblogging ] high tea from Fujian Anxi one person in charge of inquiry , the person in charge told reporters responded.

Anxi Tie Guan Yin as the birthplace of tea , tea industry is quite fast. However, the local merchants , the earth seems to have become standard limit pressure on them the burden can not be removed .

Hangzhou Tea Research Institute , vice president Yang Xiufang told reporters that the rare earth content in tea is difficult to suppress the reason is because from the earth during the growth of tea : tea tree will absorb from the soil rare earth metals, rare earth-containing spray to tea . " fertilizer " can also cause rare in tea have residual ; eVEN IF SUCH situation can be avoided during the growth of the tea will continue to accumulate some of the elements, and the longer growing season , higher rare earth content , can not be avoided .

Nevertheless, people are still trying to close around the tea standard defined bottom line.

Anxi tea to status quo , for example, local agriculture and fruit tea Bureau staff told reporters , in fact , since the standard distribution of rare earth tea since the implementation of the tea-producing areas are actively taking measures to deal with this problem : on the one hand , the regulatory authorities in strengthening rare earth content on garden soil survey , detection, high rare earth content of soil tea tea back to forests and the gradual implementation of the new transformation of the tea plantations strict control over its rare earth soil indicators ; on the other hand , the regulatory authorities are also strengthening checks on fertilizers , high rare earth content prohibited sale and use of fertilizers , are not allowed to enter the local market , has recently been dozens of fertilizer in Anxi shelves . These measures to improve the quality and safety of tea does play a role.

However, these measures have only suppress the symptoms , not the illness .

The Anxi tea enterprises responsible person told the reporter , internal quality control is very strict, the planting process all organic fertilizers , even in the process of picking tea leaves and tender also try using mining techniques . But no matter how hard they try , as long as he took the samples to detect, rare earth content of tea will be exceeded substantially . It made him feel all efforts are in vain. The past two years , the company handling 5-8 every year cause excessive rare quality sampling problems arise , however, in addition to struggling to cope , but no law can be thought of him .

"Tea in the rare earth content and soil parent material , whereas the soil in Fujian tea itself is rich in rare earths , in my submission have been thousands of tea samples, according to the same criteria , only need to detect five kinds of rare earth element content , tea pass rate will not exceed 60%, while in 2012 , the state is even more rare earth content detection methods to adjust for the 16 kinds of rare earth elements were determined , estimated the sample will not be able to pass more than 20% . " Fancheng Sheng told reporters cited an example .

In this regard , Fujian merchants generally expressed deep feeling , while the production of which oolong , pu-erh tea tea enterprises and farmers concerned, the matter is poked a sore spot in their hearts .

Reporters from Anxi oolong tea trader at a number of learned and green tea , black tea leaf tea buds just take a different , oolong tea, black tea, brick tea usually takes high maturity picking leaves open face , but in general, the new Ministry bud tip lowest rare earth content , the higher maturity leaves containing rare earth content is higher, it is this distinction so many cooked Chacha business into a " not standard" embarrassment.

Anxi County, the Secretary of Agriculture and fruit tea Cai Jianming said, according to the relevant measurement data , China's tea, green tea rare earth exceeded the rate at 10-20% , oolong about 60% of the standard rate , while black tea, Pu'er tea has nearly Jiucheng products rare exceeded.

Seen in this light , merchants mouth "can not target" , seemingly out of anger , but in reality it is out of frustration.

Urgent solutions tied tea industry

In fact, on the rare earth industry, tea industry standard limit always exists controversy.

"Tea in the rare earth content and grains background values ​​( environment uncontaminated case, the normal content of a chemical element ) falls far short of the two are the same rare limited standards, it seems a bit too strict tea . " Yang Xiufang told reporters , cereals rare earth content in the background values ​​between 0.35 to 0.4mg/kg , while rare earth content in tea background value reached 0.23 to 1.76mg/kg, which makes the rare earth content of less than 2mg/kg defining criteria of tea is almost close to the limit.

Setting such a limit standard , is it because the intake of rare earth once more than the standard , it will cause harm to human health ?

According to the Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy "published efficacy of rare earth elements and health effects " shows: REE if long-term low -dose intake, can indeed accumulate in the liver , causing liver morphology and pathological changes in liver cell injury , hepatic metabolism disorder caused fatty liver, but the specific uptake value the article but did not express .

Numerous inquiries from reporters, relevant information , and ultimately from the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences released a study has found few data standards : " RE acceptable daily intake of adults as 4.2mg more properly ." And Anhui Ministry of Agriculture key Laboratory of Biotechnology of tea , there are studies that tea REE 3 /4 or more insoluble in water but remain in the tea leaves , people drinking tea intake is less than 1/4.

"In other words , even if limited in accordance with the highest standards , rare earth content in tea reached 2mg/kg, ingested through drinking earth wants endanger human health , adult day drinking at least 8 kg or more and in fact , once Guangzhou reached a per capita consumption of tea consumption in the world , this figure is only an average 2.5 kg . Notice that the average annual consumption of 2.5 kilograms . " China tea Circulation Association Deputy Secretary-General told reporters Yao Jingbo said excitedly . In his view, since the set threshold has affected tea production and sales, from planting to production to sales , rare limited standard to give the " shackles " have been everywhere.

"If you want control of pesticide residues in tea people can do , and should do , but the countries to develop standards in the heavy metal content in tea for risk analysis , it should take into account the heavy metals leaching rate and intake. a standard, if the majority of people still can not match endeavor , whether it is debatable ? "Ouyang Tao Kun sighed.

At present, China already exists 1100 tea-producing counties ( cities, districts ) , there are farmers more than 8000 million people, 40 million people involved in tea . Most tea-producing counties in the mountains , the economy is relatively backward, these mountain tea has become the main source of the masses . Whether the development of tea industry is limited, will be high tea and living conditions of farmers produce effects can not be ignored .

In this regard, the Ministry of Agriculture Tea Quality Supervision and Testing Center Deputy Director Liu has said publicly that , when tea RE standards promulgated in haste , without good risk assessment and testing. And this year the new testing methods and testing instruments came out, the problem is indeed rare tea caused a great challenge .

Insiders agree that the Chinese tea with international testing standards should be standards, abolish exclusive Rare limits . But Yang Xiufang opinion, this view is too extreme : " I do not cancel Rare limits , but the standard should be relaxed in a strictly controlled artificially added , while ensuring the healthy development of tea industry ."

Tea Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences researcher Chen Zongmao also believes that , through the determination of rare tea , concentration levels , sources and ways of research, scientific research institutions have confirmed the existence of tea Rare limits certain degree of irrationality. Therefore , it is imperative as soon as possible to the existing tea Rare limits re- assessment, development of more scientific and reasonable indicators. The quality inspection, industry and commerce departments should also be revised and improved standards of tea after a rare enforcement , so can guarantee the health of consumers but also conducive to the healthy development of the industry .


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