Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1911 — Japan Stops Coloring Tea. [ARTICLE]

Japan Stops Coloring Tea.

New York. —The consul general of Japan, K. Midzuma, has announced that the Japanese government had issued an edict to Japanse tea growers that hereafter the manufacture of artificially colored teas in Japan was prohibited. . This action fqllqws the ruling made by the United States treasury department that on and after May 1 teas shipped to the United States must be free from any coloring or facing matter whatsoever.