Sri Lanka President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa Friday made an appeal to tea factory owners not to tarnish the reputation of Ceylon Tea brand, which has long been an attractive brand around the world and request them to supply high quality tea to global market.

President Rajapaksa noted that media recently reported instances of adulterating the quality tea by mixing sugar, glucose, sodium bicarbonate and ferrous sulfate and the tea industry has suffered a major setback due to the rejection of such tea in the world market.

He emphasized that the country’s reputation as well as the global demand for Ceylon Tea could not allowed to be harmed in the future.

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