Australia leads new push to raise campesterol limit for olive oil

New World producers are renewing a bid to raise the limit for campesterol in olive oil to stop what they say acts as a trade barrier and discriminates against their authentic virgin olive oils. Led by Australia and with support from Argentina, the United States and New Zealand, they say the limit should be raised from 4 to 4.8% so as not to unfairly exclude oils that exceed it for seasonal, varietal or geoclimatic reasons.