Tea board issues show cause notice to 30 factories January 15, 2021 × Tea Board has issued show cause notices to 30 tea factories in The Nilgiris for various deviations from legal requirements. Tea Board’s Executive Director, M Balaji, said that the Board’s officials undertook inspection in 43 factories during the last two months. Show cause notices have since been issued to 30 of these factories for various deviations, he said. “These deviations included lack of quality leaf procurement, poor hygiene standards, non-maintenance of statutory records, holding of tea waste beyond permissi...