“ When you look around the world, ” says Fan, “ you discover that Taiwan is the only country that treats tea as an agricultural product. ” He says that tea is not a “ raw ” agricultural product like an apple and argues that it should be treated as a processed product.
范德光表示，其中的玄機明眼人一望可知。不過，關於被監察院糾舉的「茶葉原產地標示不實」一事，製茶公會有話要說。「放眼全世界，只有台灣將茶葉歸類為農產品！」總幹事范德光指出，茶葉不同於蔬果等「生鮮」農產品，應屬農業「加工」品。