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Prosecutors and health officials raided a Changhua County cooking oil maker Wednesday based on tips that the company’s olive oil products are not as pure as it claims. Authorities seized 2,490 litres of olive oil along with raw materials and accounting books during their search at Chang Chi Foodstuff Factory Co. on suspicion of fraud…
Time, patience and a lot of money. Those are the things an olive oil producer needs to grow a brand in the world’s biggest market, according to the category manager for one of the largest national distributors.
Isabelina Trading Company has launched the UK’s first power-packed ultra-filtered extra virgin olive oil. A revolution in olive oil production, the unique ultra-filtration method removes all impurities and sediment from the oil without affecting flavour and crucially levels of the health-boosting anti-oxidant nutrients.
Michael O’Hara Garcia doesn’t have an exact reason the olive industry is starting to spring up in Florida. “That’s a really good question,” the president of the Florida Olive Council said. But, he added, it might have to do with the economic necessity created by HLB disease — or citrus greening disease. For the past…
Egypt plans to cultivate one million new olive trees in Sinai, agriculture and land reclamation minister Ayman Farid Abou-Hadid announced in a statement Sunday.
Olive oil sales are showing the first signs of recovery from an unprecedented slump in sales brought about by soaring prices.
To blend deodorised olive oil in virgin olive oil is a fraud for global standards and rules but it’s difficult to find it. Reseachers participate in a workshop in Madrid to discuss the problem.
Filippo Berio Olive Oil has launched the largest national US advertising campaign in its 150-year history. The imported Italian brand, the leading olive-oil seller in the US, will invest approximately $7 million to $9 million on a year-long campaign aimed at further increasing its share as the country’s olive oil consumption continues to grow.
All the Iberian Peninsula will back to more usual levels of production. Good outlook also for Italia, in particular in Centre and North. The quotation will degree in coming weeks, also if the stock level is the lowest for many years.
More than 20 of the world’s experts on olive oil verification met earlier this year, and a recent summary of their brainstorming provides an illuminating update on olive oil fraud and possible solutions. That there is a problem was not in dispute. Figures released at the Workshop on Olive Oil Authentication, held in Madrid June…