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I have been reporting for over a year now on the controversy regarding the implementation of EU labeling regulation 432/2012 in Greece. It has been a Herculean task attempting to unravel this Gordian knot of misinformation and scientific obfuscation.
The labelling gets me, since butter oil is often a reference to ghee, but Delavignes’ dairy-free butter oil is all olive with just a touch of vegan butter essence. Nothing more. Another of an increasing number of ‘alternative’ products including olive oil. You can read about another interesting one, produced closer to home in NZ,…
Dutch supermarkets Jumbo and C1000 have boycotted Bertolli olive oil and products from Ferrero and Douwe Egberts following a pricing row – although Douwe Egberts products returned to shelves last week after it reached an agreement with the retailers.
The L’Huile d’Olive de Corse-Oliu di Corsica is a PDO product and a source of pride for the inhabitants of the French region. But olive oil of Corsica must not be considered as only one.
Rohini Kumar, as readers will remember from my earlier article, initiated a class action suit against Salov in the Northern District Federal Court of California in July 2014 alleging that Salov, the importer of Filippo Berio olive oil from Italy, committed fraud by giving prominence on the label of its product to ‘Imported from Italy’…
The European Parliament has proposed measures for the evaluation of high-quality extra virgin olive oils produced in the European Union (EU) aimed at protecting consumers and producers. Proposed by Croatian MEP (Member of European Parliament) Ivan Jakovčić, member of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, the motion for a resolution…
French olive producers will soon be able to benefit from new financial aid measures proposed by the French Ministry of Agriculture. The measures have been proposed in response to the poor 2014-2015 harvest which saw a decrease of more 60% in production and a significant loss in profits for olive oil producers and mills.
It’s about as far from the Mediterranean as you can get, but experiments in producing quality olive oil from cooler weather olive tree varieties are showing promise in western Oregon, USA, where David and Carmen Lawrence have evaluated dozens of cultivars over the past decade. Owners of Oregon Olive Trees in Amity, Oregon, the Lawrences…
Reading the articles by Athan Gadanidis on the decreasing prices of olive oil in Greece and the country’s failure to fully exploit its rich olive oil resources brought to mind a meal enjoyed among hillsides covered with olive groves last spring at the Dounias Taverna or “Traditional Center of Gastronomy of the Cretan Diet,” in…
The first of three meetings to support the nomination of the “Piana degli Ulivi” (Plain of Olive Trees) to be inserted in the Unesco World Heritage list took place in Ostuni, Puglia. The plain is an area between the villages of Fasano, Ostuni and Carovigno claiming the largest concentration of ancient olive trees in the…