Environmental advocacy group Greenpeace said on Tuesday that an investigation it had conducted found tea bags sold in China by Unilever’s Lipton brand contained unsafe levels ofpesticide residue, though Unilever said the product was safe and to standard.
4月23日，国际环保组织绿色和平发布调查报告称“立顿”绿茶、茉莉花茶和铁观音袋泡茶含有多种禁用农药，其中硫丹、三氯杀螨醇和联苯菊酯等农药被证明可能影响男性生育能力和胎儿健康，灭多威是高毒农药。绿色和平的调查报告瞬间将全球最大茶叶品牌、联合利华旗下的“立顿”推到了风口浪尖上，有网友惊呼“喝茶也中招，以后不敢再喝立顿了”。
Greenpeace said in a statement that in March it randomly purchased several boxes of Lipton tea bags sold in two Beijing stores and sent them to an independent laboratory for pesticideresidue testing. "The testing found that all four Lipton samples contained pesticides that exceeded the EU’s maximum levels of residue, while three samples contained pesticides unapproved by the EU," the group said. "Some of the detected pesticides are also banned for use in tea production by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture." Greenpeace named one of the pesticides it found as the insecticide Bifenthrin, which is banned in the European Union.
国际环保组织绿色和平的报告说，2012年3月在北京随机购买了四份“立顿”牌袋泡茶，品种分别为红茶、绿茶、茉莉花茶和铁观音。这些样本随后被送往独立的第三方实验室进行农药残留检测。检测结果显示“立顿”绿茶、茉莉花茶和铁观音样本均含有农业部明令禁止在茶树上使用的高毒农药灭多威。累计下来，四种样品共含17种农药。
