Could you tell me more about how the teaposy ingredients are grown and harvested, in terms of organic standards or pesticide/herbicide use?
Our products are not certified organic. It is very expensive to go through the certification process, not to mention the high cost for the maintenance of the certificate after it is acquired; however, we have been exporting to Europe for 4 years. For us to be able to export to the EU, we have to pass very strict pesticides-residual-free testing. The testing standard is even more strict in Germany than the rest of EU. We partnership strictly with only one tea farm/factory who owns silver needle tea farms and jasmine gardens, and has implemented an excellent quality control process. We obtain herbal flowers from steady suppliers from other regions of China. We run testing on raw materials before production to ensure they meet EU pesticides-residual-free testing requirements. We then go through a proprietary process on the flowers (gentle steaming/dry) for further cleaning before starting the crafting process. After the teas are crafted, they are scented with the fresh jasmine flower (no
