On pesticides in tea

Pesticides is something we shouldn’t talk about, it is a taboo in society. Consumers are afraid of chemical products, while farmers brush off the concerns because they are a very important tool of modern agriculture.
Let’s see what kind of pesticides are used and try to understand how toxic they really are. Everything is a poison, it’s all a matter of dosage. Are pesticides used widely in the tea plantations? How much of a health risk does it pose for the farmers and the consumers?
Pesticide cause acute toxicity and chronic toxicity, how can we assess each of them?

Does rinsing the tea allows us to get rid of the pesticides?
Can you detect the presence of pesticides by tasting the tea?
Here are resources this video was based on:
On pesticides in tea and risk assessment:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19393210.2014.972471
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10661-010-1589-y

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01480545.2020.1802476

https://www.theses.fr/2020INPT0059
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045653519329339

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10807039.2014.894443
Transfer of pesticides from tea leaf to water:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.10553
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf010436d
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02652039109374000General pesticide risk assessment

https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-science-and-assessing-pesticide-risks/overview-risk-assessment-pesticide-program#human_health
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ps.865
https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.2903/j.efsa.2019.e170910
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651321005406
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03601234.2011.534413
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412012000335
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