WHAT MAKES HERITAGE TEA BETTER?
Heritage Tea ensures that its teas delivered to our vendors and customers are of the highest quality for the longest shelf life. Teas are divided into 4 major classifications: Low Quality, Medium Quality, Good Quality and Seasonal Quality, the highest level of quality for commercially available teas. Heritage Teas are all of Seasonal Quality, meaning they are sourced from their respective areas during their peak seasons (usually only 3-5 weeks / year.)
Additionally, all Heritage Teas are stored in Advanced Atmospheric MAAV-P Vac-Pacs® that enables the teas to stay in their top Seasonal Quality state until packaged for delivery to the customer, ensuring a long shelf life at peak quality. Many other specialty or traditional tea companies do not take this extra step to ensure quality and consistency.
WHAT ARE HERITAGE TEA’S SAFETY ACCREDITATIONS?
Heritage Tea only sources its teas from companies that have achieved or surpassed our rigorous safety and manufacturing requirements:
Heritage Tea
requires the Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP) designation which is an internationally recognized and
annually audited program that governs all facets of manufacturing from washing
of hands to cleaning equipment.
The C-TPAT or Customs Trade Partners Against Terrorism
program is followed which is a voluntary cooperative relationship between the
US CBP and businesses formed to strengthen overall supply chain safety,
including providing the ability to track and trace all teas and herbs
The HACCP or Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points
accreditation which is an international food safety program requiring the
continual monitoring operations critical to food safety.
WHAT ARE HERITAGE TEA COMPANY’S GUIDING PRINCIPLES?
Heritage Tea is guided by a
Christian ethic we sum up in seven PERFORM
principles:
1. Passion - we are
passionate about our people, products and processes;
2. Excellence - we are devoted to ensuring excellence in all we do and
say;
3. Reliablility - our customers
and suppliers can count on us for every order, every time;
4. Faithfulness - we do what we say, with
integrity;
5. Organization - we are
committed to be highly organized creating maximum efficiency which translates
into better products at better prices with better service;
6. Relentless Service - our corporate
culture IS “going the extra mile to ensure customer, vendor and fellow employee
satisfaction”;
7. Magnanimity - a
big word for making sure we are always giving back to the community and
adhering to the maxim that giving is better than receiving.
The ETP or Ethical Tea Partnership program is a
voluntary initiative within the tea industry to monitor and regulate living and
working conditions on tea estates around the world.
All our organic teas are
certified under the National Organic
Program - USDA which assures that they are 100% organic. All USDA NOP
designations are audited yearly.
Many of our growers are FAIRTRADE certified.
