Olive business
Pan-European food companies could be prone to major translation blunders as they look to implement new food labelling rules, says translation expert Richard Brooks.
Food Information for Consumers (FIC) legislation should allow manufacturers to choose whether to label ingredient origins to avoid costly, complicated and unnecessary changes, say suppliers.
The 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…
An 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…
Like 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…
Going from one extreme to the other, California farmers are welcoming what some are calling “biblical rain” that will bring relief from this year’s historic drought. While this single storm,…
The growing popularity of olive oil has driven more intensive systems of olive tree cultivation, writes Kieran Cooke. But they are vulnerable to the kind of extreme weather that has…
The leading Nordic fuel cell technology company PowerCell has announced a technology developing project to convert toxic waste from olive oil production into electricity.