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At the close of the 2012/13 crop year, olive oil imports by the United States, the world’s top importer of olive oil and table olives, totalled 298828T, recording a decrease of 6% from the season before level. The US imports share of the EU as a whole dropped 10 points between 2011/12 and 2012/13, falling…
Since we released our Seagate brand 100% extra virgin olive oil, some of our customers have been asking us about the color of our glass bottles. Although our olive oil comes in a clear glass bottle, you’ve probably gotten used to seeing it sold in green tinted bottles on the grocery store shelves. So does…
Eurofins is ‘still experiencing’ a significant level of meat species testing one year on from the horse meat scandal and this has expanded into olive oil and honey, ‘which is open to adulteration’.
In 2013, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) published a survey of mature trees in Jerusalem that was “the most comprehensive of the recent SPNI surveys, including some 4,000 trees” … Gethsemane Olives: behind a high-stone wall, just outside the Old City walls, stand some of the most famous trees in…
Moscow’s Metropol luxury hotel was recently chosen as the location for the First Chilean Olive Oil Exhibition, where attendants had a chance to sample a range of Chilean olive oil products and learn about the South American country’s growing industry. The event featured seven of Chile’s top producers and was attended by Russian importers, distributors…
The Kingdom has established an olive complex in Al-Jouf, with more than 30 of the world’s most important and popular varieties, to provide seeds and technical expertise to farmers in various parts of the country. This provides support for farmers in olive-producing regions in the country. Olives are an important source of food and a…
British biotech firm Oxitec hopes a world-first field trial of its genetically-modified olive fly will still go ahead in Catalonia this year despite recently withdrawing its application for the experiment. There were Spanish media reports that the trial had been shelved amid “multiple obstacles and safeguards sought by the Spanish authorities”, while GeneWatch UK claimed…
The world’s most expensive spice, saffron, shows promise as an income boost for the olive oil producers of Les Garrigues, in the province of Lerida in western Catalonia. With prices for ‘liquid gold’ at low levels and those for the ‘red gold’ lucrative, last year 28 olive oil producers planted saffron bulbs in the district,…
When California-based Cre-Agri, Inc, self-styled world leader in olive-phenol dietary supplements, sued its competitor, Pinnaclife, Inc, for infringement of two of its basic patents before the District Court of the Northern District of California in 2011, the possibility that those patents would be found invalid on a motion for summary judgment was probably the farthest…
With World Cup fervor quickly escalating and an important presidential election on the horizon, it seems all eyes will be on Brazil in 2014, the olive oil industry included. Latin America’s economic powerhouse has become one of the fastest-growing export destinations for olive oil, and last year imports of the green gold reached 74,873.8 metric…