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A code of practice is being drawn up for table olives to guarantee the authenticity and quality of Australian table olives and distinguish them from imported products.
The AOA Table Olive Subcommittee has been working with Food Standards Australia & New Zealand (FSANZ) to draft the code specifically for table olives. This code will adopt the [...]

Spraying olive trees with a natural product from sugar beet has successfully stopped some varieties of olive trees in the South Island being knocked by frosts.
Alex Houliston, head of science at Christchurch Girls’ High School, took a year off teaching high school to study the frost problem in his own orchard.
Some olive orchards have suffered [...]

by Joel Santos Guimarães
Last year, Brazilian imports of the product totaled US$ 170 million. Of this total, 54% came from Portugal. And the forecast is for growth to continue as, this year, expansion of 20% is expected in comparison with 2007.
Two reasons are given for the market growth: the first is that Brazilians are seeking [...]

An olive tree on the Mount of Beatitudes blessed by Pope John Paul II is the only one producing olives this year, according to the forester at the site.
Catholic Online reports in the Jubilee Year of 2000, Pope John Paul II made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land stopping at one point to bless an [...]

The Punjab government is all set to launch olive cultivation over 300 hectares under a ‘pilot project’ to ensure better remunerative returns to the farmers on one hand and towards a dedicated push for diversification of agriculture on the other.
Reviewing the prospects of the olive plantation in a meeting, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal [...]

Varieties of olive trees recently tested by researchers could be cultivated with moderate saline water irrigation.
The olive’s reputation as a health food is being borne out by modern science, as studies of olive-consuming Mediterranean peoples have shown. To keep the world’s olive lovers satisfied, an intensive wave of olive planting has occurred in the past [...]

The Council of Members of the International Olive Council held its 14th extraordinary session at its headquarters in Madrid from 8 to 11 July 2008. Discussions were chaired by Israel.
The first day of the session focused on the future action of this intergovernmental organisation. A Discussion Group met to determine the special-interest topics and priorities [...]

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International food manufacturer Unilever Plc. said it has sold its Bertolli olive oil and vinegar business to Grupo SOS for 630 million euros.
Unilever said the transaction includes the sale of its Italian Maya, Dante and San Giorgio olive oil and seed oil businesses, and the factory at Inveruno, Italy.
The company said it will retain the [...]

Par Matthew Scuffham,
version française Benoit Van Overstraeten,

Unilever annonce un accord avec le groupe espagnol Grupo SOS portant sur la cession des huiles d’olive et des vinaigres de marque Bertolli pour 630 millions d’euros.
Cette opération rentre dans le cadre du programme du géant de l’agro-alimentaire anglo-néerlandais de céder pour un total de plus deux milliards d’euros [...]

Mediomega Nutrition, the North American leader in promoting the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet, announced a breakthrough in skin rejuvenation with the release of its olive oil-derived squalane (pronounced skwal-on) formula — Mediomega(TM) Squalane.
Squalane is a lipid component of the skin that declines with age and exposure to the sun and extreme weather. Applying [...]

Every summer for the last 650 years, Turkish men have gathered to see who was the strongest, fastest and slickest of them all. It’s called Kirkpinar, and it’s the biggest oil wrestling competition in the world.

The well-muscled men face off in the middle of a grassy field, as a crowd of thousands looks on eagerly. [...]

By Jacqueline Smith,
Jim Syme, president of Olives New Zealand, expects local olive growers will produce around 220,000 litres of olive oil this year, up from 185,000 litres in 2007.
A bumper year for New Zealand olive oil has some in the industry predicting it will follow wine as one of our most promising exports.
Just three decades [...]

What’s mom-to-be Ashlee Simpson craving these days?
“Green olives and pickles!” her husband Pete Wentz revealed on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show Thursday. “Green olives on everything!”
He called her cravings an “anytime kind-of-thing. You always have to be ready.”

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By Julie R. Johnson,
The Sevillano olive crop in California is doing poorly this year with little fruit on the tree,
As olive growers in the state continue to struggle in an industry fraught with problems such as the olive fruit fly, foreign imports, and labor issues, it was unwelcome news to learn this year’s Sevillano olive [...]

Unilever Plc. said it has signed a definitive agreement to sell Komili, the olive oil brand that it owns in Turkey, for an undisclosed price to Ana Gida, part of the Anadolu Group and expects to close the deal in 2008.
The international food manufacturer said the transaction is part of its announced plans to dispose [...]

Par Noureddine Ouazzani,
L’olivier, de par ses produits et leurs utilisations séculaires ainsi que ses fonctions multiples de lutte contre l’érosion, de valorisation des terres agricoles et de fixation des populations dans les zones de montagne, constitue la principale spéculation fruitière cultivée au Maroc avec environ 590.000 Ha, soit près de 58 % du verger arboricole [...]

Tunisia, the world’s fourth-largest olive oil producer, increased sales abroad by 15 percent to 89,300 tonnes over the first three months of the year, government data showed on Tuesday.
Olive oil represents half the country’s farm exports which account for more than 10 percent of total exports.
Tunisia sells 90 percent of its olive output abroad, mainly [...]

La Tunisie , quatrième producteur d’huile d’olive dans le monde, a enregistré une augmentation de ses ventes destinées à l’export de 15% (89300 tonnes au cours des trois premiers mois de l’année).
L’huile d’olive représente la moitié des exportations agricoles du pays, qui représentent plus de 10% des exportations totales.
La Tunisie vend 90% de sa production [...]

Would make state definitions conform to world standards
Current California law does not define olive oil grades

A bill to update California’s definitions of olive oil grades to conform to international standards is headed to a vote by the California Assembly.
The Assembly Appropriations Committee voted Wednesday to approve Senate Bill 634, authored by Sen. Patricia Wiggins, D [...]

New research suggests a diet high in olive oil, vegetables and fruit may help prevent osteoporosis.
With poor diet one of the key factors in brittle bone diseases French scientists have discovered the antioxidants that are present in olives can help ward off the degenerative bone illness.
While performing tests on the olive plant the researchers found [...]