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On Dec. 19, the FDA released the final rule on the use of “healthy” on food labels. Certain tea products now can display the “healthy” claim on packaging, provided they contain less than 5 calories in each 12-ounce ounce serving, the New York-based Tea Council of the USA Inc. shares. 

Tea Forté released this holiday season its Warming Joy collection. Consumers can countdown to the holidays one tea at a time with an Advent Calendar of the Warming Joy collection. Each festive tea blend is hidden behind a numbered door.

TAZO announces a multiyear transition plan of its tea portfolio to a regenerative organic approach. TAZO is taking the principles of regenerative and applying them to the way the brand operates its business, it says.

NuZee Inc. (doing business as Coffee Blenders), Plano, Texas, and Farmer Bros. Co., Northlake, Texas, announced a strategic partnership under which Farmer Brothers will provide access to manufacturing capacity as NuZee continues to roll out new coffee and tea products in the United States. Under the agreement, NuZee may place up to 50 co-packing machines in Farmer Brothers' 500,000-square-foot, SQF-certified, zero waste facility in Northlake, Texas. 

Following Seattle-based Starbucks Coffee Co.’s acquisition of Atlanta-based Teavana Holdings Inc. at the end of 2012, the tea industry is waiting for the hot tea segment to boom, according to experts.