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Marketable health benefits, along with a growing consumer interest in Mediterranean foods and unique regional flavor choices, are helping to drive an invigorated olive oil market in the U.S., which should surpass $1.3 billion by 2010, according to Olive Oil in the U.S., the latest market research from Packaged Facts.
Packaged Facts projects that the [...]

The European Commission has given Italy two months to explain why it obliges olive oil producers to mark the origin of the olives on product labels in contravention of E.U. laws, a spokesman said Friday.
“As far as we are concerned, that is not in conformity with European legislation, where voluntary labeling is possible but not [...]

By Roy Pirrung,
For many years health advocates have touted the benefits of a Mediterranean diet, at the base of that diet is olive oil. Since the Bronze Age, olive oil in the diet has been the cornerstone of health for many reasons.
Many people dislike the taste and the thought that it contains saturated fat, taste [...]

La France importe 90 000 tonnes, soit 95% de sa consommation annuelle d’huile d’olive.
Nyons, dans la Drôme, et la Corse du Sud font une fête de la dégustation de l’huile d’olive nouvelle. Mais chaque région a ses traditions, ses terroirs, et aussi ses olives. Dans les Baronnies, la tanche, très savoureuse, a été consacrée par [...]

Pour rompre avec la culture du cannabis, très rentable dans cette vallée déshéritée, des femmes se lancent dans la production de l’huile et le commerce équitable. Avec la bénédiction de Rabat.
Enfin la pluie est arrivée. Aussi brutale qu’inespérée. Quand Dieu «met les nuages en morceaux», dit une sourate du Coran, «ses serviteurs se réjouissent». Située [...]

Par Moufida Barhoumi,
Conforme aux normes établies par le Conseil Oléicole International dont la Tunisie est membre permanent et l’un des pays fondateurs, l’huile d’olive locale est habilitée à occuper une place de choix sur le marché mondial.
La Tunisie occupe le second rang mondial en ce qui concerne les superficies agricoles réservées à l’olivier. Celles-ci s’élèvent [...]

Les producteurs d’huile d’olive vierge italiens, obligés d’informer les consommateurs de la provenance de leurs olives, sont en infraction avec les règles de l’Union européenne car cette précision fausse la concurrence, a précisé vendredi la Commission.
Les services de la Commission européenne ont adressé une mise en demeure aux autorités italiennes pour les sommer de se [...]

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Nine Rumanians, resident in Fuente de Piedra, have been accused of stealing thousands of kilos of olives and selling them for sums below the market price.
Criminal organisations operating in Andalucía have found a new way of getting rich quick in the area’s abundant olive harvest. The Guardia Civil has recently arrested nine [...]

Une étude récente remet en question l’action positive sur la santé de l’huile d’olive, mais la Fondation Suisse de Cardiologie confirme ses bienfaits.
Une étude menée sur des animaux par l’Université de Münster a pointé du doigt l’huile d’olive, soupçonnée d’induire des modifications pathologiques des vaisseaux (athérosclérose).
Craignant que cette annonce déstabilise les consommateurs, la Fondation suisse [...]

Par C. B.
Une nouvelle étude indique qu’un antioxydant contenu dans les olives préviendrait de la dégénérescence maculaire chez les fumeurs.
Les chercheurs ont démontré que , ou HTS, un antioxydant contenu dans les olives, lutte contre la dégénérescence maculaire (DMLA) chez les fumeurs. Ces derniers sont particulièrement sensibles à la DMLA car la fumée de cigarette [...]

A pest is harming one of Northern California’s most important crops….and the problem seems to be growing.
By Steve Milne,
It’s a fruit fly that plagues olives. The bug first appeared in California 10 years ago and has spread across the state. Hannah Burrack is an expert on the olive fruit fly. She teaches entomology at North [...]

An “Olive and Olive Oil Sector fact-finding” conference bringing together the sector’s 42 leading names was held to brainstorm ideas on producer premiums, European Union quotas, domestic consumption and promoting export facilities.
During the conference the sector’s weak and strong points were discussed and proposals were designated. It was divided in five main working groups as, [...]

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Pakistan and Greece are likely to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in olive cultivation and olive oil production.
According to the information reaching Trade Development Authority (TDAP) here on Saturday, MINFAL has already accepted the draft of the MoU which has now been forwarded [...]

Biogin Biochemicals has announced that it has been developing an Olive Polyphenol ingredient standardized, 50 percent that is now ready for market to expand the company’s available range of its Olealife Polyphenol series products.
Thus far, Biogin Biochemicals has introduced both a 10% to 50% Olive Polyphenol specification. Both are extracted by water, and the result [...]

With cold weather comes chapped lips, dry skin and brittle hair. But thanks to the healing properties of olive oil, these inconveniences can be easily and inexpensively remedied.
There are many ways olive oil can optimize your beauty. To heal cracked lips, dab a little on before going to bed. Apply it to any dry part [...]

The Indian Olive Association has urged the Center to abolish the 45 per cent Customs duty on olive oil.
“The import duty makes olive oil prohibitively expensive in India,” said a press release from V.N. Dalmi, President of the association. Run-up to Budget 2008-09
It pointed out that currently a 45 per cent Customs duty was imposed [...]

A Spanish rehabilitation centre is using olive harvesting as part of its therapy to help substance addicts.

Francis Arjona, founder of the Good Samaritan Drug Rehabilitation Centre near Pozoblanco in Southern Spain, has had a number of run-ins with drug dealers since he began working with addicts. “I have had a couple of knives at my [...]

By Andrea Bennett,
When Clifford C. Graber first came here from Indiana, he lived in a tent on his land.
He built his house and planted citrus trees as the burgeoning industry that would later define the region was catching on more than a century ago.
It was a different fruit, though, that would occupy Graber’s interest, delight [...]

A research group of the University of Granada has found out that maslinic acid, a compound present in the leaf and the olive skin wax extracted from alpeorujo (crushed olive pulp), has the capacity of preventing cancer as well as regulating apoptosis in carcinogenic processes.
Maslinic acid is a protease inhibitor that, among other features, has [...]

By Stephen Daniells,
A polyphenol from olives may protect against macular degeneration associated with age or the damaging effects of chemicals in tobacco smoke, suggests a new study.
The potential benefits hydroxytyrosol (HTS) for eye health were demonstrated in an in vitro lab study using cells from the human retina, with mitochondria - the cell’s power stations [...]

Par M. Ouary,
Le prix de la belle huile d’olive de Kabylie s’est envolé cette année. Il tourne autour de 350 dinars le litre.
A ceux qui trouvent que c’est trop cher, les producteurs ont une réponse toute trouvée : Pourtant, vous payez le même prix pour le litre d’huile d’olive de grignons importée d’Espagne. Une huile [...]

Western Victorian olive groves will yield 1000 per cent more than last year.
Drought in 2007 meant fruit couldn’t set on the trees.
Grove owner Deirdre Baum, from Laharum, says this season the trees are healthy and bearing fruit because of timely rain.
“This year, the trees have had bit of rain at the critical time and so [...]

Par Dalila B.
L’huile d’olive algérienne a tous les atouts pour être consommée et connue à l’international sous un label algérien. Ce produit biologique, lié à l’histoire de la l’Algérie et écoulé sur les marchés extérieurs comme un breuvage anonyme, souffre encore d’un déficit d’image. Seul 1 % des quantités exportées est conditionné, le reste [...]

California department of public health warns consumers not to eat Olivier Brand Parmesan & Asiago Dip with Garlic and Basil to prevent any contamination from bacteria that could cause botulism poisoning.
Dr. Mark Horton, Director of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), today warned consumers not to eat Olivier brand Parmesan & Asiago Dip with [...]

Turkish olive and olive oil exporters examine factories in the Spanish cities of Madrid, Seville and Cordoba that meet 51 percent of total global demand for olive oil, and hold meetings with representatives of the Olive and Olive Oil Exporters Association, the Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives and prominent olive and olive oil producers in the [...]