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The newly signed free-trade agreement between Australia and Japan has drawn a mixed response from the food industry Down Under.
Details have been released for the first of the 2014 International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes programs. Internationally-renowned, the program was introduced in 2001 and is now run annually across the globe in Spain, Italy, the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. This year’s events will include: Melbourne, Australia – 16-18 July 2014…
The Australian government has said that it will look into the current system of country of origin food labelling, attempting to uncover and then clamp down on the misuse of the ‘Made in Australia’ label.
Other local achievers at the competition include Victorian producer Springfield Olive Grove, which won Best in Class for its Frantoio in the South Hemisphere Non-organic Monovarietal Medium category, and Silver Medal winners Camilo Olives and Rylestone Olive Press. Congratulations to all. We’ll bring you more on the NYIOOC award results in the June edition of…
Australia’s top olive oil producer, Cobram Estate, has scooped up five international gold medals in New York. The brand has won the most successful exhibitor for the second year running and collected an unprecedented five gold medals and two “best in class” trophies from the five oils entered in the New York International Olive Oil…
Consumers are baffled by ambiguous messages about healthy eating and need help to unravel the labelling conundrum, warns the UK Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Spain’s olive oil exports continue at record levels and there’s also talk of a new record in production this season with more than 1.5 million tons already produced in the five months to February 28, the latest figures show. … Also according to Spain’s Food Chain Information Agency (AICA), the country’s table olive season, which…
Food businesses need to re-think their labels fast if they don’t want to be caught out by the new Food Information for Consumers (FIC) regulation, says RSSL.
How much does it really cost to grow olives for olive oil production and how much does the cost vary around the world? The answers are often not known by olive growers themselves, according to Dr Juan Vilar Hernández, a sub-co-ordinator of a 25-strong International Olive Council-appointed expert group studying production costs.
Villa de Leyva, Leyva rhymes with Ava (as in Ava Gardner), is a whitewashed colonial village, and now a National Monument, located in the Valle de Saquencipá about 4 hours from Bogotá, Colombia. The village dates from the late 1500s and it sometimes feels in Villa de Leyva that you are present in a place…