International News/Trends
A global police crackdown has seized over 10,000 tonnes of illicit or dangerous food and drink, including monkey meat, dead insects and fake sugar spiked with fertiliser, the European police…
Read MoreBoth olive oil and butter are 100% fat. Both have more than 100 calories a tablespoon, but olive oil has less saturated fat and no dietary cholesterol. Almost all foods…
Read MoreOfficers from the Toledo and Ciudad Real sections of the Guardia Civil have uncovered a gang of olive thieves who are believed to have sold 300 tons of the fruit…
Read MoreThe Taipei District Court sentenced Wei Ying-chung, former chairman of Ting Hsin Oil and Fat Industrial Co and Wei Chuan Foods Corp, to four years in prison Friday for fraud…
Read MoreGeorgia’s first ever olive processing plant has opened in eastern Georgia’s Kakheti region. Yesterday Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili attended the opening of the factory, which was financially supported by a…
Read MoreUpon opening a new bottle of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO), the aromas of fresh cut grass and green almond waft into your nose. It is so intense that you…
Read MoreThe olive tree is living proof that beauty has nothing to do with perfection. The evolution of the twisted and gnarled wood into the collection of lanceolate and graceful leaves…
Read MoreDeoleo, the world’s largest olive oil company, has initiated a voluntary recall of Bertolli Extra Virgin Olive Oil (8.5 oz) and Carapelli Extra Virgin Olive Oil, (25.5 oz), sold in…
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