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Despite a wet start to the season, Boundary Bend Olives has experienced one of its biggest yields this year, producing 13.2 million litres of olive oil. The company has orchards at Boundary Bend, Wemen and Boort and completed its olive harvest last weekend.
The Northern Adelaide Food Park is forging ahead, with $7 million funding available to attract food and beverage processors, manufacturers, packaging and logistics businesses looking to locate at the new food manufacturing industry hub. Both existing businesses and international and interstate businesses looking to relocate to South Australia may also be eligible to apply to…
Licorice and sharks come to mind when I think of Australia. Extra virgin olive oil, not so much – but, as I recently learned, it should. Australian olive oil has taken the international olive oil competition circuit by storm. It’s such good stuff that Larry Olmsted, author of Real Food Fake Food who has written extensively about…
Consumers today are relatively more frugal, according to the latest Consumer Connect survey by retail analytics company IRI. Significant is that between 39-48% said they would pay more for food with additional nutritional benefits such as antioxidants.
Motivations for voluntarily implementing food traceability schemes stem not from the need to maximise profits but enhance information, safety and quality management within the supply chain.
Sun protection is important all year round, but it is even more crucial during the summer. It is wise to choose the right sun block for your skin type as well as your age. Read through to the header “Other UV protective foods”: olive oil is first on the list!
Castello Monte Vibiano Vecchio won two Gold Awards at NYIOOC 2017 thanks to constant research on quality and sustainability.
Counterfeit certification labels, such as fake organic or protected designation of origin (PDO) labels, continues to be a major problem for the European food industry, according to a report by Europol.
Five suspects have been arrested for changing production dates on foreign olive oil brands whose expiry dates were about to run out. Police said yesterday that by doing so the suspects could have made over 9 million yuan (US$1.32 million) if they had sold all their stock. No wonder quality EVOO producers are increasingly adopting…
For the first time, Italy is no longer the leading producer of extra virgin olive oil, with the country having now been surpassed by both Spain and Greece. The findings were issued by the National Consortium of Olive Growers (Consorzio Nazionale Olivicoltori – CNO), adding that Syria would have also surpassed Italy had it not…