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One Lodi family has turned a former class project into a fast-growing company making award-winning olive oils. Calivirgin, owned and operated by the Coldani family, finished the 2015 olive oil competition season with 55 medals. That sets their product as one of the most decorated olive oil companies in the United States.
The member countries of the International Olive Council (IOC) have agreed on a draft text to replace the current 2005 agreement. The document will serve as a basis for negotiations on the new agreement due to be discussed in October 2015 at a United Nations conference in Geneva. The new agreement is expected to enter…
Class action lawsuits charge three popular olive oil companies are deceiving customers about where their olive oil comes from – and what it’s made of.
A shady car park feature has grown into winter fun for a north east Victorian winery. Boggy Creek Wines, in the King Valley, charged $5 for people to pick their own plastic bag of olives creating fun for visitors in the depths of winter. A novel idea for those with excess olives – a little…
Good olive oil is a kitchen staple that can transform a dish. That’s what celebrity chef Karen Martini is setting out to showcase by stepping into the Mr Wolf kitchen armed with Mount Zero olive oils from this year’s harvest. Join Karen as she whips up a five-course dinner starring butcher Gary McBean’s organic beef…
Food authenticity analysis is being increasingly used in industry as companies face more sophisticated frauds issues, according to Eurofins.
The world is wondering whether the Greek government will come to an agreement with its creditors that will enable the country to avoid defaulting on its debts and stay in the Eurozone. With an economic crisis continuing, billions of euros have been withdrawn from Greek banks in recent months, and a quarter of the workforce…
In 1998, a single female olive fruit fly was captured in west Los Angeles County. By 1999, olive growers in San Joaquin, Tulare and five more counties reported the fly’s presence. Today, the olive fruit fly lives in every olive-growing area in the state, waiting to ruin the olive crop at the first slip-up from…
The 12th Italian National Exhibition of Monovarietal Extra Virgin Olive Oils will be held on June 20 and 21 in San Benedetto del Tronto, Marche. It is organized by ASSAM (Marche Agri-Food Sector Service Agency) and the Marche Region, and it is one of the many events aligned with this year’s Milan Expo. The aim…
Sicily ”is invaded by Tunisian oil whose imports in the first trimester of this year, across the country, have increased 681%, almost eight times the quantity over the same period last year”, according to the president and director of the Sicilian chapter of farmers’ association Coldiretti, Alessandro Chiarelli and Prisco Lucio Sorbo, who were talking…