Europe to push US for solution on olive oil pesticide limits

The need for maximum pesticide residue levels for olive oil imports into the United States will be raised during transatlantic free trade agreement talks in September, according to Italian Member of the European Parliament Sergio Silvestris. Silvestris had called for this back in March when he told the Parliament that 98 containers of Italian extra virgin olive oil were at the time detained in the ports of New York and Seattle over concerns about traces of the pesticide chlorpyrifos-ethyl.