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The boss of Sicilian Mafia group Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Denaro, has been dedicating his time to olive oil production, apparently producing extra virgin olive oil in a corrupt business that goes by the name “Fontane D’Oro” of Trapani, Sicily, Italian police said.
Reading the labels of their wine and olive oil bottles, one might think Planeta is an invented brand name referring to the universe of estates and products the Sicilian company has been running and creating over the last 20 years. Instead, this is the real surname of the family whose head of the household currently…
Are you running around in last season’s olive oil? It could mean that your food doesn’t taste as good as it should. While we might not think of pantry staples like olive oil as seasonal, that’s exactly what it is: olives are usually harvested in early- to mid-fall, and bottled a few weeks after that.…
Local congressman Giovanni Epifani, in a note addressed to the Regional Councillor for Agriculture and the Apulian members of the European Parliament, said: “I would demand a permanent decision to insert the sturnus volgaris (common starling) among the huntable bird species, in order to limit the serious damages that this wild bird is causing to…
A study has examined how oil mills in central Algeria can make use of olive oil production byproducts by transforming them into compost, thus minimizing pollution and even generating additional sources of income for the olive oil industry. According to the website of the Delegation of the European Union to Algeria, the study was undertaken…
Organic food firms changing their packaging to meet new EU labelling rules could accidentally breach organic labelling rules in the process, one certifier has warned.
Pan-European food companies could be prone to major translation blunders as they look to implement new food labelling rules, says translation expert Richard Brooks.
Food Information for Consumers (FIC) legislation should allow manufacturers to choose whether to label ingredient origins to avoid costly, complicated and unnecessary changes, say suppliers.
An underwater excavation site off of Haifa, Israel, has revealed a 7,500-year-old water well and Neolithic village. The finds are from a pre-metal and pre-pottery settlement that lived on the Kfar Samir site. This lost Levantine village is now 5m (16ft) underwater due to prehistoric sea-level rise, drowning out what may have been the oldest…
The traditional art of olive making has been taught to young primary school children as they learn more about Chanukah. ‘It was a nice experience for them to see from the beginning to end how olives are made into oil’ said the director for Chabad Youth in NSW, Rabbi Elimelech Levy. These children were granted…