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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates compliance with the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) rule for US facilitie

Eastern medicine has given us natural cures to treat all sorts of ailments. Chinese medicine has used plants, ferments and longevity elixirs to heal the body for centuries. Kombucha is a type of tea that has been fermented, with loads of health benefit claims like antioxidants, probiotics, vitamins, and gut health protection. What's in there? Kombucha is an ancient longevity beverage, meant to add a few years to your life, sipped all over the world. Kombucha is a healthful fe

Tea has been grown and consumed by the native people of Yunnan Province of China for at least 1,750 years, according to the written record.

Today, terroir is used in many food and beverage artisanal industries and each has varying definitions of how they define the term #terroir.

As the first half of 2019 comes to an end, tea businesses have faced four key challenges that have left them wondering what to do or where to turn. Here are some insights on each. 1. The New Organic Ruling In the 27 December 2018 United States Department of Agriculture’s Federal Registry Vol 83. No 247, major changes were published to the National Organic Program; Amendments to the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (Crops,Livestock and Handling) – 7 CFR Part

The new ruling on #favors requires the use of organically certified flavors whenever commercially available. Since the #USDA did not post gu

Millennials, those born in the early 1980s to the early 2000s, are reported to rival the population of baby boomers. Some estimate approximately 80 million Americans are #millennials - about a million more than baby boomers. Currently, there are over 6.2 million millennials, aged 18-34, with annual household incomes over $100,000. While this segment accounts for less than 10 percent of the total 18-34-year-old population, they hold a huge influence over the entire millennial

It is generally accepted that the origin of #Tea traces back to the period of 2737BC. It is impossible to say for sure how tea first became known, as legends and stories have developed over the centuries. The most popular story tells of the Emperor of China, Shennong, considered to be the father of Chinese Medicine and agriculture, who would venture out into the forests of China cataloging all he saw. One day while he was boiling water, some say to purify it, a leaf drifted i