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Article: Myanmar destroys chemical-dyed pickled tea leaves in Mandalay market
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- April 25, 2009
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Myanmar destroys chemical-dyed pickled tea leaves in Mandalay
market
YANGON, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has destroyed a total of 145
viss (about 240 kilograms) of chemical-dyed pickled tea leaves on
sale in markets of Mandalay as a follow-up measures taken in
Yangon's after the authorities imposed ban on dozens of brands of
such tea leaves, the local weekly Voice reported Saturday.
A total of 17 shops selling pickled tea leaves in the second
largest city were also found with their goods dyed with Auramine O
chemical, the Mandalay City Development Committee was quoted as
saying.
Myanmar had earlier destroyed 220 kg of such chemical-dyed
pickled tea leaves confiscated from 16 shops out of ...