International News/Trends
The American Botanical Council announced recently that Natac, a Spanish natural products company, has agreed to sponsor ABC’s information on olives through its Adopt-an-Herb Program.
Reusable olive oil cruets would effectively be banned in restaurants and cafes across the European Union from next year, under proposed changes before the European Commission. The draft amendments also…
You can’t sell olive oil in the current climate – right? And you definitely can’t make money out of it. While that’s undoubtedly the case…
The UC Davis Olive Center has launched a new testing program to provide sensory and chemical evaluation of olive oil samples, an initiative designed to help retailers and wholesalers better…
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…
New research from Mintel on consumer lifestyles in China reveals that due to major food scares in 2011, the organic food sector is the major beneficiary, with 80% of urban…
The harmless but unsightly crystallization that occurs when olive oil is stored in a fridge could be prevented by ultrasound treatment, Spanish scientists say. They are seeking an international patent…
Turkish olive oil exporters, benefiting from a harvest fall in Tunisia and Spain, increased their sales 139% in the last two months of last year from the same period a…