Ito En in Honolulu, HI, US (United States)

Response to Safety Concerns About Melamine ITO EN Ltd., our parent company, has guaranteed that our products do not contain melamine. As a company that was founded over forty years ago in Japan, ITO EN accepts no deviations from quality standards. 

ITO EN was founded in August 1966 on a simple premise: to produce and sell a product at the very heart of Japanese culture—green tea. Over the next four decades, ITO EN took this idea and turned it into a national phenomenon. 

The most popular green tea beverage in Japan, Oi Ocha is brewed from prime first flush green tea leaves,meaning it is a brew of the finest quality leaves, from the first harvest of the spring. 

In Japan, there are numerous kinds of green tea, each with their own methods of preparation. Out of all the varieties, the most common kinds of Japanese green tea are sencha, gyokuro, hojicha, sencha, genmaicha, and bancha. 

For Immediate Release Contact: Patrick Morris 518.272.2400, ext. 12 ITO EN Acquires Mason Distributors And Enters U.S. Supplement Market New York, NY (June 12, 2006) – Green tea manufacturer ITO EN (North America) INC. today announced that the company has purchased Mason Distributors, Inc.