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This year’s olive harvest has practically come and gone in Spain, where lack of rain and spring-like temperatures have shortened a process that usually could extend as late as January or February.
Since 2012, an agricultural trade agreement with Morocco has permitted duty-free imports of dozens of Moroccan products into the EU. This has included agricultural and fishery products, and olive oil of every category. Last week, an EU court annulled the agreement, prompting Spain’s COAG Andalucia, the region’s union of farmers and ranchers, to request a…
Over 30 trade-association led campaigns promoting everything from olive oil to fresh meat have been named the recipients of the latest round of EU funding for agri-food products. Funding to promote the advantages of locally-produced EVOO – wouldn’t that be nice.
If there’s one man who knows food, it’s Jamie Oliver. The British celebrity chef, whose six-part series Jamie’s Super Food wrapped up on Channel 10 this week, set out to prove that healthy eating and superfoods isn’t all about “goji berries and green drinks”, but about “cooking smart with simple foods”. Jamie just got extra…
A definition of ‘artisan’ products is urgent, says one food law expert, as an Italian court cracks down on two crisps manufacturers falsely claiming to be artisanal.
Food production in Qatar has crossed another milestone with the opening of a plant last week to repack olive oil and distribute more than 28 Tunisian products in the local market. Of note is that the oil is tested several times to ensure quality for consumers …
Each week lately, roving gangs of olive oil thieves have attacked dozens of olive groves in Spain, and police can’t keep up, so Spanish farmers have banded together to create organised vigilante bands to protect the groves from thieves.
Don’t miss out on Olives New Zealand’s info-packed two day processing seminar, “How Processing Practice Impacts on Quality (e.g. Gold medals) and Quantity”. The intensive course is being held in Auckland on 7-8 April 2016 and will focus on best practice processing for both best quality and quantity of oil from your olives, led by…
In his new role as AOA president emeritus, Paul Miller continues to take Australian industry expertise to a global audience. Miller will be presenting to a symposium on Authenticity of Olive Oil and other Vegetable Oils in Nuremburg, Germany in April 2006, presenting on “How Virgin is Extra Virgin?” The symposium will provide an overview…
The principle consumer rights organisation in Italy is encouraging shoppers who feel duped by buying oil olive from one of the major, mostly Spanish-owned brand names currently embroiled in the ‘fake’ EVOO controversy, to seek compensation.