DOI: 10.36347/sjavs.2016.v03i05.007

Pages: 389-394

Tea is one of the three drinks in the world, and having a variety of health benefits. With the widespread use of pesticides in tea cultivation, it was increasing production and reducing disease, but also led to the quality of tea contaminated. Given pesticide residues may affect human health, countries began to develop pesticide residue standard for tea, and the standard is one of the measures of risk regulation. This paper reviews the Chinese tea in pesticide residues risk regulation situation, and with the CAC, the EU, the United States to do comparative analysis found that: (1) States to establish limits need to consider the factor of trade barrier; (2) principle of cautious prevention can influence the risk of regulatory development will be; (3) countries’ regulatory decisions will also affected by the perception of risk culture.