Reliable Green Tea
We use stringently selected fresh leaves and we do not use green tea leaves that are or may be grown with allergen, meat and bone meal, poultry manure, genetically modified crop, additives, color former, aroma chemical or any other substance/material that may be contaminated with germs.
Traceability
１） Pledge by Tea Farmers
Our manufacturer has contracted 150 tea plantations that have pledged to put their names and tea leaf types on each of 1,000 plantation zones and follow our strict safety standard(to use authorized pesticide only).
２） Usage of pesticide
The 150 tea farm plantations pledge themselves that they do not use unauthorized pesticide or chemical. We strictly keep our safety standard.
３） Keeping cultivation record
The contracted tea plantations are required to keep the record of what fertilizer they use and when.
４） Committee for Tea Plantation
We carefully observe and guide the contracted tea plantations during their cultivation.
For example, we advise them to stop pesticide spraying if nearby plantation has not completed its tea plucking.
The biggest feature – fully controlled and supervised production - from cultivation to shipping
Inspection on fresh leaves
Fresh leaves plucked under our strict supervision are transported to the tea factory for processing. Our manufacturer has seven stage fresh leaf inspecting method that do not allow inferior quality leaves in the processing factory. There is no possibility of contaminated or inferior leaves misplaced in the production line.
Purified water
The 1st step of processing the green tea leaves is the process of steaming fresh tea leaves.
For steaming the leaves, we use 99.9% purified water.
Finishing process
For 2nd step of processing as a finishing process, the manufacturer has installed a device which electrically identifies and removes foreign objects and a X-ray inspection machine which also does the same task.
We also manually inspect the processed tea leaves. 10 leaf samples per production lot are picked and checked the taste and odor.
Storage
We do not use wooden pallets for storing the tea leaves.
R&D
At our contracted R&D center, they analyze and inspect the finished crude tea leaves with a near-infrared analyzer. They also have an analyzer that is able to identify foreign odor or flavor on the tea leaves.
The R&D center will inspect the tea leaves made by other manufacturers upon request.
The analysis for remaining pesticide in the tea leaves can be submitted upon request as well.