International News/Trends
A study has examined how oil mills in central Algeria can make use of olive oil production byproducts by transforming them into compost, thus minimizing pollution and even generating additional…
Read MoreOrganic food firms changing their packaging to meet new EU labelling rules could accidentally breach organic labelling rules in the process, one certifier has warned.
Read MorePan-European food companies could be prone to major translation blunders as they look to implement new food labelling rules, says translation expert Richard Brooks.
Read MoreFood Information for Consumers (FIC) legislation should allow manufacturers to choose whether to label ingredient origins to avoid costly, complicated and unnecessary changes, say suppliers.
Read MoreAn underwater excavation site off of Haifa, Israel, has revealed a 7,500-year-old water well and Neolithic village. The finds are from a pre-metal and pre-pottery settlement that lived on the…
Read MoreThe regional union of agricultural farmers (syndicat régional des agriculteurs) in Sfax, Tunisia called for the National Oil Office (Office National de l’Huile) to take swift action to regulate the…
Read MoreAn innovative European project has been studying ways to convert waste from olive oil production into electricity. Biogas2PEM-FC is an EU-funded industrial research project co-ordinated by PowerCell, a Swedish fuel…
Read MoreLike many European countries, this year’s olive harvest in Turkey is not meeting expectations, reports the Turkish daily Hürriyet. Over the past month the wholesale price of extra virgin olive…
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