EU action plan for olive oil inching forward

A minimum number of tests on olive oil authenticity would have to conducted each year in the European Union under proposed anti-fraud measures before a European Commission committee. And EU countries would have to be more rigorous in the details they gave the EC on their testing and any irregularities found, as part of a proposed standardization of obligatory reporting. The moves are part of the EC’s Olive Oil Action Plan and were discussed at a meeting of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets on October 23.