London, Feb. 16.
The momentary alarm caused by a morning paper giving prominence to the discovery of arsenic in a recent consignment of Chinese green tea had been stilled by reassuring statements from Mincing Lane.
The story went that the discovery was made by Custom House} analysts and that tea organizations were hastily investigating artificially coloured green tea. Stocks were held up in warehouses and sale stopped.
The proportion of arsenic in- an insignificant quantity of the tea distributed is stated to have been very small.—Reuter.
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