Olive Oil News
The FOE and Olivegrower team regularly have enquiries from people looking for small-batch processors: it’s not uncommon for ‘home’ olive growers to want to produce their own oil, and weather-induced…
Despite stricter European controls, the olive oil industry in France is still rife with deception and fraud. In their report released this week, France’s Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and…
The 2014-2015 harvest year will go down in history as one of the worst for olive farms in certain regions hit hard by bad weather and a fruit fly run…
After months in which olive oil bottlers and their acolytes have struggled to explain that the farm or “hand-made” olive oil (olio di oliva artigianale) is only an invention, they…
Two class action suits, Koller et al v. Deoleo USA, Inc. and Med Foods, Inc. (‘Koller’) and Kumar et al v. Salov et al (‘Kumar’) were filed last year in…
Americans are not the only consumers who dislike the bitterness of high quality extra virgin olive oil. Visitors at Gourmesse, a popular trade fair in Zurich, who evaluated 140 samples,…
A virulent pathogen that starves olive trees poses a serious threat to EU olive production, experts have warned. “Major consequences”, such as reduced yields and costly control measures, would be…
Olive tree cuttings from the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem, where Jesus spent the night ahead of his crucifixion, are thriving in a tiny rural community in southern New South…