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The information pack for entries to the 2014 WAOC EVOO Competition, held in conjunction with the Perth Royal Show, is now available for download from the WAOC website – here . Entries open on Monday, 14 July and close Friday, 8 August, with the Awards Presentation Dinner to be held on 13 September. For more…
Palace Cinemas is the largest chain of art-house cinemas in Australia, with 20 theaters, employing more than 500 people and selling 3-4 million tickets per year. So it was no small decision to use only olive oil to pop their popcorn.
In its annual overview for the 2014 Australian and New Zealand Olive Industry Directory, the AOA estimates 2013 domestic olive oil production at 19 million litres, following a reduced crop in 2012. This is against an estimated 2013 production of 400,000 litres in New Zealand and only an average world crop expected for 2013/14. This…
The US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) submitted a public comment letter to the FDA urging it to revisit its strategy for addressing economically motivated adulteration (EMA) of food ingredients, noting that the current framework doesn’t sufficiently address its unique risks.
For Brown University researcher and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine Dr Mary Flynn, the development and advocacy of a plant-based, olive oil diet was at one time considered outrageous. In the 1990s when the notion of consuming low-fat and fat-free foods for health was gaining widespread popularity, Flynn, who is also a nutritionist at The…
Now that common sense has been confirmed by a consumer survey that traffic light labelling is confusing and misleading, maybe the Department of Health (DH) should sit up, take stock and review its strategy on healthy eating.
Organizers said nearly 200,000 Japanese consumers joined 53 extra virgin olive oil exhibitors and expert olive oil tasters from ten countries to celebrate extra virgin olive oil quality for the third edition of Olive Japan, sponsored by the Olive Oil Sommelier Association of Japan. Toshiya Tada, founder and chairman of the Olive Oil Sommelier Association…
The election results are in for the new Olive Oil Commission of California’s inaugural board of directors. Commission directors will have the potential to influence the future of olive oil in the state as the group to recommend labelling and grading standards to the California Secretary of Food and Agriculture. The standards they propose will…
Most of us have bought a product by mistake at some point, having mis-read the label: the wrong variant of a pack of biscuits, for example, or conditioner instead of shampoo. I certainly have – more than once. What we’ve done is make an assumption, based on our previous exposure to the labelling of the…
Olive oil imports are down about nine percent on last year in seven major markets outside Europe – a drop of 22,620 tons, according to new figures from the International Olive Council. That means the IOC estimate of a world surplus of 480,000 tons this season – just updated to reflect higher Spanish production –…