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> As for the foam, it is likely extremely fine dust and foreign
> particles rising to the top as bulk teas in the US and Europe are dust
> and refuse from the production room floor (personally verified to me
> by the Sri Lankan consulate two weeks ago). We can just barely regard
> that stuff as tea (percentage wise). This is just another reason why
> the US government tries so hard to keep European companies like Lipton
> from dumping their low-quality crap in the US by being the only
> country in the world with tea import regulations (that don't seem to
> work). Don't buy it. We should refuse that just like our founders did
> in Boston harbor. (And Charleston harbor for history buffs out there.)
> Viva la revolucion!

This is slanderous and ikllogical - you need to take yourself to a tea
processing factory in one of the tea producing countries and watch the
making and grading of tea - Dust IS a grade of tea! Or for that matter
talk to an expert in the processing and grading of tea - why oh why
do these urban myths continue - what volume of tea would need to be
swept to fill the worlds tea bag production? Tea would need to be
even more uneconomic for the producers then it is if that was the
volume of waste!!