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On June 7, in an effort to educate consumers on how to distinguish between different types of olive oil, Flavor Your Life, a European Union supported campaign, shared tips on how to identify various qualities of olive oil. Flavor Your Life shared six factors that help to determine the quality of olive oil.
Spain has objected to the release of a report to the European Commission on its audits of the accuracy of olive oil labels for the year 2012, after Olive Oil Times requested a copy under the Commission’s transparency policy. Spain told the Commission that releasing the report would “prejudice the commercial and economic interests of…
The world’s biggest olive oil exporter to China – Spain – fears being caught in the crossfire if a trade battle breaks out over the European Union’s punitive tariffs on Chinese solar panels announced last week. China waited just a day to launch an anti-dumping probe into EU wine imports, a move which suggests a…
Greece still leads the world in per capita olive oil consumption, with each person consuming nearly 18kg yearly, according to figures from the European Commission. In a table of per capita olive oil consumption in the European Union for 2011/12, Greece is at the top with 17.9kg, followed by Spain with 12.6kg, Italy 10.9kg, Cyprus…
Since last November The Amazing Olive has been serving up some of the most interesting combinations of flavors you have ever come across in olive oils. Flavors like coconut mango twist balsamic vinegar, pineapple, chocolate balsamic vinegar and even bacon flavored olive oil drizzled from the silver spigots.
The Spanish capital has carried out olive oil tastings in shopping centers throughout the city to determine what locals consider to be best characteristics of extra virgin olive oil, all in a bid to create a new ‘super’ oil.
Help from misrepresents may be on the way in the form of laboratory assays developed by US Department of Agriculture researchers. These tests add to the array of options for quality-control analyses of olive oil. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemist Talwinder Kahlon’s assay relies on PCR (polymerase chain reaction) technology to compare olive DNA to…
Α project with a total budget of 5,922,129.14 euros for the promotion of Greek olive oil to the markets of the USA, Canada, Australia and Norway, is going to run after the contract signed between SEVITEL and the Alternate Minister of Rural Development and Food, Maximus Charakopoulos. This program is a continuation of the “program…
The Olive Oil Futures Market (MFAO) booked a €213,000 ($280,000) loss last year despite a 28% spike in the number of contracts negotiated in it. But its fortunes turned around in the first quarter of this year – as movements in olive oil prices sparked even more trade – seeing it end April with a…
SA olive growers are advised that the State Voluntary Levy was repealed as of 1 May 2013, when the compulsory National Olive R&D Levy came into operation. The SA levy was established in 2009 to provide a mechanism for olive industry promotion and research and development, including market development, and was set at $6.00 per tonne.…