Approaches for the Elimination of Microbial Contaminants from Lippia multiflora Mold. Leaves Intended for Tea Bagging and Evaluation of Formulation

Table 2

Uniformity of mass of the formulated tea bags.

Processing approach	Batch of product	Number of tea bags deviating by more than 10% from mean (N = 20)	Number of tea bags deviating by more than 20% from mean (N = 20)
A	LTB1	2	0
	LTB2	1	0
	LTB3	2	0
	LTB4	2	0
B	LTB1	1	0
	LTB2	2	0
	LTB3	1	0
	LTB4	1	0
C	LTB1	1	0
	LTB2	0	0
	LTB3	1	0
	LTB4	2	0

Approach A: air-drying of the fresh leaves of L. multiflora Mold. before tea bagging; Approach B: oven-drying of the fresh leaves of L. multiflora Mold. before tea bagging; Approach C: microwaving of air-dried processed sample of L. multiflora Mold. before tea bagging.