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The AOA is running a series of olive oil assessment and judges training courses in March 2014, with separate days covering Basic – Introduction to EVOO and Advanced – Assessment of EVOO. Those completing the advanced course can sit a proficiency test, and if passed will join the AOA’s list of accredited judges for future…
Victorian boutique olive growers Peter and Helen Wright will remember 2013 for three reasons – record production, superb quality and national acclaim. The couple – Peter, an information technology consultant, and Helen, a retired nursing sister – achieved this year what other growers only dream about.
Emergency workers say they had to use olive oil to grease up and free a naked man who got stuck in a washing machine during a game of hide and seek. Mooroopna police, in northern Victoria, say the man was attempting to hide from his partner when he climbed into the top loader. It took…
As the New Year dawns, FoodNavigator predicts the top five drivers of the European food industry in the year ahead.
Olive oil and olive pomace oil imports to India in the first half of the fiscal were 5650 metric tonnes (MT), up from 5073 MT in the previous fiscal, registering a growth rate of 11.40%. While Q-1 (April-June) registered a growth of 25%, Q-2 (June-September) had a decrease of 3% when compared with the same…
Last year Dr Prokopios Magiatis and Dr Eleni Melliou from the Athens University announced their discovery of a new fast and accurate tool to measure key health promoting compounds found in extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) such as oleocanthal and oleacein. Using Quantitive 1H-NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) calibrated to specific frequency the amount of these…
New York’s first “early harvest release,” hosted by De Medici Imports at the headquarters for the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, welcomed olive oil producers, experts, chefs, and writers to taste new oils from the Mediterranean’s first harvest this season.
The head of a leading Taiwanese cooking oil company was sentenced to 16 years in prison Monday after being convicted on fraud and mislabelling charges in one of the biggest food scandals to rock the island. Kao Chen-li, chairman of the Changchi Foodstuff Factory in Changhua, central Taiwan, was meted out the punishment by the…
The Food Information for Consumers regulation (FIC) is set to come into effect this time next year. FoodNavigator spoke with Campden BRI’s principal food law advisor David Leeks to find out what changes to expect.
Transparency Market Research includes new market research report “Olive Oil Market Research – Global Industry Size, Share, Growth, Trends And Forecast, 2012-2018” to its huge collection of research reports. This research report analyzes this market depending on its market segments, major geographies, and current market trends.