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And the health department came in and just standard procedure, they grabbed the bottles and took them to their lab and just paneled them to see if they were safe or anything like that.
And what came out was a hit of alcohol above 0.5%, which in this country, unlike the rest of the world, is the definition of non-alcoholic or alcoholic.
And even though there's no difference physically, like one isn't like non-intoxicating, the other one is intoxicating.
It's just a line, arbitrary number.
And so now this revealed that this fermented tea may have alcohol in it.
And so like overnight there was like, stop the press, stop everything.
Every brand, including mine, was taken off the shelf.
Well, so what happened was initially they said, hey, we can't sell this anymore.
And I said, okay, guys, I put that on the label.
Like it says may contain alcohol because it's fermented.
And I believe in transparency.
I understand alcohol is a stigmatism for people.