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Tesco produce in China unsafe for three years now

Tesco produce in China unsafe for three years now

Press release | 2011-11-14 at 17:00

Beijing – After three years of independent testing, produce sold at Tesco supermarkets in China continues to show levels of pesticides far above the legal limit, according to new results released by Greenpeace.

Time for an intervention: Tesco must end their pesticide habit

Time for an intervention: Tesco must end their pesticide habit

Feature Story | 2011-11-15 at 14:29

After three years of independent testing, produce sold at Tesco supermarkets in China continues to show levels of pesticides far above the legal limit. When is Tesco going to wake up and smell the chemically-doused produce? By Evan Brooks.

Escalating pressure to prompt food safety legislation timetable

Escalating pressure to prompt food safety legislation timetable

Press release | 2007-04-16 at 6:00

Greenpeace activists today occupy the lift lobby of Central's Murray Building, where the headquarters of the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau (HWFB) is located, with a banner "Safe Vegetables Now!", showing their dissatisfactory on the...

Greenpeace testing finds illegal pesticide levels in Tesco's China produce

Greenpeace testing finds illegal pesticide levels in Tesco's China produce

Press release | 2011-09-08 at 16:46

Greenpeace has called on UK supermarket giant Tesco to sell safe food in China after testing revealed illegal levels of pesticides in agricultural products sold at Tesco's China stores. Greenpeace-commissioned testing of fruit, vegetables and...

Pesticides: Hidden Ingredients in Chinese Tea

Pesticides: Hidden Ingredients in Chinese Tea

Publication | 2012-04-11 at 10:30 1 comment

Tea drinking is one of China's most cherished customs; and tea a symbol of Chinese culture. Today, China is the world's biggest tea producer, with 20 tea-producing provinces and eight million tea growers. And the area of tea plantations and...

The bitter story of the Chinese word for tea

The bitter story of the Chinese word for tea

Feature Story | 2012-04-17 at 10:30 1 comment

The story behind the Chinese word for tea (茶) reveals two faces to a seemingly innocuous word. Next time you brew a pot, ask yourself, are you drinking pure tea, or something much more dangerous?

Lipton tea bags laced with toxic pesticides

Lipton tea bags laced with toxic pesticides

Press release | 2012-04-24 at 10:12

April 24, 2012, Beijing – A Greenpeace investigation has found that Lipton, the world’s best-selling tea brand, sold tea bags to Chinese consumers that violated Chinese laws and failed EU safety standards.

2010 Supermarket Ranking Guide

2010 Supermarket Ranking Guide

Publication | 2011-03-25 at 7:00

Does your supermarket make an effort to stock healthy, safe foods? Does your supermarket promise to eliminate five of the most hazardous kinds of pesticides? Find out which major supermarket chain in China and Hong Kong does the most for customer...

Greenpeace: The 12th Five-Year Plan Must Drive a Green Transformation

Press release | 2011-03-03 at 7:00

On the eve of the National People’s Congress, Greenpeace calls for China to strengthen and improve the 12th Five-Year Plan’s language and data on energy, environment taxation, industrial and agricultural pollution, and other environmental issues.

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It's about to get a little safer to drink Chinese tea

It's about to get a little safer to drink Chinese tea

Blog entry by Wang Jing | 2012-07-23

You may remember earlier this year we bought 18 tea products at random from nine tea companies in China, and after sending the samples to be tested discovered that a whopping 12 of the 18 samples contained at least one pesticide...

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