New EU labelling laws just in time for olive oil’s “black year”

2014 will be known by Italian olive oil producers as the ‘black year’ – a particularly bad one for a number of reasons – among them the fact that the weather has been great if you’re an olive fruit fly, and a bacterial blight that seemed to come from nowhere has led to the destruction of hundreds of thousands of trees in Apulia. Not to mention Spain will produce nearly one million tons less than it did last year.