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Due to the change of civilization in the modern world, Industries introduce new things to attract people. These new things will came in food also. When we go abroad, train, hotels in town we drink tea. Instead of filter tea, they give tea with tea bag. In tea bag, they pack small amount of tea powder in small pockets and attach it with a thread and immersed in hot milk or hot water. As the tea was prepared by this way, the bag allows to be brewed while still immersed in hot milk or hot water, allowing the tea to drain quickly without staining. Now-a-days due to the urgency of people, companies and shopkeeper prefer tea bags to make tea in a short period of time. If you think, the gum which is used to sticky the tea bags and the chemical exists from the gum and mixed in the tea is any harmful to our body, the answer is yes. It was declared by recent research results. These tea bags are made of PVC, food grade plastic and cotton materials. Most of the companies, made nylon plastic bags for the staying ratio of hot water. MCGILL university researchers conducted a research and proclaims that, one plastic tea bag emits 11.6 billion micro plastics and 3.1 billion nano plastics. For easier to tear, Epichlorohydrin is added to make these bags. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Organization, this chemical is a risk factor and it causes cancer. Chemicals like Polypropylene and Fluoride are used to closed the tea bags. Can you believe if the tea which we like to drink is full of such poison?
What are the side effects?
1. Mostly, tea bags are made of materials such as PVC and food grade nylon plastic. The plastic which in it is called BPA. It inhibits the balanced activity of the hormone estrogen.
2. It contains high levels of Fluoride so it causes fluorosis.
3. It makes changes in internal organs. In future it creates problems in liver, pancreas and eventually cause diseases in bone, cancer and kidney problems.
What are the ways to prevent this?
1. It is our duty to keep our health safe. So, when we drink tea in tea shops and train stations we should avoid the tea containing tea bags and ask them to put the tea powder directly into milk. If possible, instruct the vendors to use tea bags made of natural ingredients. And also instruct them to avoid the tea bags for preparing the tea.
2. Merchants practice this way to make their work easy, but they must take care about people and avoid the tea bags and make the filter tea which we followed in olden days or otherwise, make sure and buy the tea bags which is not harmful.
3. Government officials must test the tea bags. While testing, if they found it was harmful immediately banned the tea bags and order the companies to manufacture the tea bags without evil products.
Published in the Public interest by Earth & Health Care Council.