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The consumer information department of the Upper-Austrian Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer, AK) has criticised a lack of clear information on olives which have been artificially coloured. According to the chamber, it is not rare for unripe olives to be coloured black to be sold on the market. They have called for a clear labelling of…
When the label on a bottle of olive oil misrepresents what’s inside, shoppers may not be getting what they thought they paid for. Mislabeling is also of concern to chefs, retailers, and America’s olive growers and olive oil processors – especially those newly entering the domestic olive oil market. They face tough international competition: An…
Alleged price manipulation by olive oil distributors should be probed by Spain’s competition watchdog, one of the country’s main farm unions says. COAG said its lawyers were preparing data to present to the National Competition Commission (CNC) next week to back the call for an inquiry. COAG-Jaén General Secretary Juan Luis Ávila Castro told Olive…
Australia and New Zealand punched above their weight at the 2013 New York International Olive Oil Competition. Though their production is small compared with other countries they together claimed four Best of Class, five Gold and two Silver awards.
The New Zealand Organic Market Report 2012, launched in March 2013, shows that the NZ domestic and export organic sector has grown in value by around 25% in the past three years (2009–12), to NZ$340–360 million, making NZ one of the world’s fastest-growing organic sectors.
With its harvest now basically over and a million tons below that of last season, the world’s leading olive oil producer imported more olive oil in March, and exported less, than in any other month in the last four years, new figures show. According to the Spanish Olive Oil Agency’s (AAO) latest market report, Spain…
Shoppers want supermarkets to stock more world foods – particularly Chinese, Italian and Indian, according to new research commissioned by the grocery think-tank IGD. With Greek and Spanish foods also on the list, hopefully they’ll also be after our quality Australian and New Zealand table olives and olive oils – Ed.
Spain has a new banner under which it plans to go forth and conquer more olive oil trade. Launched this week by the non-profit interbranch organization which promotes Spanish olive oils, the Interprofesional del Aceite de Oliva Español, the new logo is intended to improve product positioning, increase sales and “reinforce the image of Spain…
A Peruvian tribunal has quashed anti-subsidy duties the country had been imposing on imports of Italian and Spanish olive oil. The Defense of Competition Chamber of Indecopi, the Peruvian authority on anti-dumping measures and countervailing duties, found that when the duties were approved in late 2010 there had not been the necessary proof that the…
On a unanimous, bipartisan vote, the Senate Agriculture Committee voted to support establishing a state commission to help coordinate efforts by California’s olive oil industry to fund research and improve olive oil grading and standards. “California’s olive oil industry has been growing exponentially over the past five years,” said Sen Lois Wolk, D-Davis, in a…