Davidson’s Organic Teas is celebrating 15 successful years as the first entirely organic tea company in the United States, offering teas free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and pesticides.
The company was recently awarded the highly coveted NSF certification in food safety supplier audit, and continues to pave the way in the organic tea industry for the highest standards of food safety and processing.
“It’s exciting. It allows us to take a moment to recognize our progress,” said Kunall D. Patel, who co-owns the company with Promilla Mohan. “From our family’s legacy of premium organic tea gardens in India to today, we are thrilled to be recognized as a leader in our industry for doing, what we believe, are right decisions for our kids and future generations.”
Mohan was raised on the organic tea gardens in the Darjeeling District in India from which Davidson’s sources its products. The third-generation farms were started by her grandfather, an original tea grower in the district and the first to receive organic certifications.
In 1976 Davidson’s began blending teas and bringing them to market, then shortly after introduced an organic line, which was the catalyst that transition the company to entirely organic production. Davidson’s was also the first to introduce dessert teas, honey teas and mulling spices to the consumer market, the company said in a statement.
This year, it introduced three additional flavors of its organic, fair trade and kosher certified Tulsi Teas to its line of six existing flavors. As the first to introduce the three pillars of the sustainable agricultural movement to Tulsi farming –– including organic, kosher and fair trade certified –– Davidson’s hopes to share the joys of drinking this Ayurvedic “elixir of life” caffeine-free holy basil tea with consumers.
In June, Patel was appointed to the Nevada Organic Advisory Council thanks to his work and dedication to the Nevada Department of Agriculture’s survey of standards on organics. He plans to leverage his industry expertise to guide the board in promoting organic products within Nevada and help interested companies reach organic certification.
