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If you’re interested in attending one of the top olive oil events of the year, head over to Trieste to the fairground there, the Piazzale de Gasperi. The three-day event, which starts on Sunday, is being hailed as a top extra-virgin olive oil expo, and promises to bring in all the important people in the [...]

By Sarah Brealey,
A Suffolk farmer’s produce is staking a claim to be the new olive oil.
The glass bottles of extra virgin cold-pressed rapeseed oil are now on sale in Tesco as it rapidly grows in popularity. It has been made by Sam Fairs at Hill Farm in Heveningham, near Halesworth, for the past three years, [...]

The website of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food has released final production figures for the 2006-2007 crop season, alongside sales numbers for the month of April & various other data. All figures are in metric tons.
As is evident, sales volume has come to a complete halt - at season-low prices - during the [...]

First printed in La Stampa,
Adapted by Ronnie Richards,
Spring is a time of year when new products and initiatives prompt us to also examine the health of the extravirgin olive oil sector. Rankings, competitions and industry publications help to create a picture of the situation. Considerable political, media and market attention is focused on quality Italian [...]

By Robin Pomeroy,
ROME, May 30 (Reuters) - Italy, which is pushing the European Union to accept that olive oil bottles should state the true origin of their contents, hopes to extend the idea to other globally traded food products, its farm minister said.
In an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, Paolo De Castro said he was [...]

Reporting by Julia Hayley,
Edited by Bernard Halloran,
Spain produced 34 percent more olive oil in the season just ended, or 1.11 million tonnes in total, the Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday.
“That represents 8 percent more than the average for the last four seasons,” it said.
Olive farmers also produced 500,000 tonnes of table olives in the season [...]

A question arises whenever olive oil is obtained: what can we do with its agricultural residues, such as olive vegetable water, browse leaves, or the solid waste known as ‘alpeorujo’?
By Antonio Marín Ruiz,
A study carried out by Dr. Germán Tenorio Rivas, a member of the research group “Solids concentration and bioremediation” from the Department of [...]

The first 340 indigenous Maltese olive trees produced following the launch of the Project for the Revival of the Maltese Olive (PRIMO) in January last year are being planted in various localities in the country.
A batch of 50 indigenous Maltese olive trees of the Bidnija variety was planted yesterday by Bank of Valletta employees in [...]

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ROME, Italy (Reuters) — When you buy a bottle of olive oil, the rolling Tuscan hills on the label and the “made in Italy” stamp should reassure you the product is as Italian as Chianti or Armani. In fact, there is no guarantee the oil is from Italy.
That would change under a [...]

This e-growing system is an innovating tool created by Adozioni Bioalimentari Italy to include the plant kingdom into a distance adoption method. A plant can be followed through its entire process of growth via internet.
The project aims at consumers and professionals of the food business interested in the high quality of organic products. By this, [...]

Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Bari with the technical coordination of CIBI, the City of Andria presents the best organic extra-virgin olive oils from around the world in competition.
An international jury of professional tasters from different olive oil regions in the world tastes and judges the oil.
The days of the competition take place [...]

Lately there is a lot of talk about the benefits of the Mediterranean diet. But what exactly is that?
Epidemiologic studies have shown that many people from Mediterranean countries can eat fatty diets and yet not have a high risk of heart disease.
Spaniards José Mataix of the University of Granada and Francisco Javier Barbancho of [...]

By Malcolm Moore,
The secretive world of Italian olive oil will be laid bare after the government insisted that every bottle should show where it comes from.
Large olive oil brands, such as Filippo Berio and Bertolli, have long cultivated the image that its oil comes from rustic, rolling groves in the Italian countryside.
Instead, it often arrives [...]

By Sally Williams,
WALES’ first commercial olive grove has been planted in a bid to capitalise on the increasing effects of climate change.
Anglesey cooking oil producer, Calon Lân, has planted 50 olive trees next to a vineyard on the northern coast of the island.
The grove, believed to be the most northerly in Europe, aims to reap [...]

An update of this post.
From deTraci Regula,
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced an olive recall as some olives produced in Italy are contaminated with botulism, a potentially deadly bacterium.
The affected labels include cans, glass jars & pouches of Cerignola, Nocerella & Castelvetrano olives produced under the names Borrelli, Bonta di Puglia, Cento, Corrado’s, [...]

By Stephen Daniells,
Collaboration between Spanish R&D company Genosa and Germany’s Aquanova has produced a nanoscale olive extract with soluble in both water and fats, for use in healthy oils and supplements worldwide.
“At this moment, there are no products containing high concentrations of [the antioxidant] hydroxytyrosol that can be used in lipophilic [oil-based] products,” said Genosa [...]

4th Wine, Olive, Oliveoil and Alcoholic Beverages fair Vinolive 2007 organised by Izmir Fair Services Culture and Art Affairs Trade Inc.(IZFAS) will be held between April 26th and 29th in Izmir.
According to a statement issued from IZFAS, 130 companies will attend the fair intended for the participation of professionals in the sector.
The fair aims at [...]

Europe’s olive growers face two major challenges: on the one hand, they have to adhere to strict EU environmental legislation, but at the same time competition from overseas olive growers is pressurising them to keep their prices low.
Now, thanks to the EU-funded NASOOP (Integrated Approach to Sustainable Olive Oil and Table Olive Production) project, help [...]

By h.b,

A mixture of politicians, sportsmen and journalists are expected to take part in an olive stone spitting competition to be held in Murcia on Saturday.
One of the organisers of the event, which will be held in the Plaza Cardenal Belluga has said that all the main party leaders, and even the King have been [...]

SOS Cuetara SA said it is modernizing cultivation methods to help stabilize olive oil prices and increase production.
In a statement outlining a new strategic plan, the edible-oil refiner said that some 10,000 new hectares will be planted annually on land that is either bought through investment funds, rented or accessed through agreements with farmers.
The new [...]

Deep in Andalucian olive country, expert olive oil producers perform their age-old alchemy, turning black fruit into gold.
by Arpi Shively,
The charmed life of a ripe Nuñez de Prado olive begins on a crisp late November morning above the town of Baena in Cordoba province, in the heart of Andalucian olive country. Over the next few [...]

Slow Food/Coldiretti on Italian Oil : Made from 50% of Olives harvested abroad.
50% of Italian olive oil sold in supermarkets is made from olives of unknown origins. This is because law 204 from 2004 has still not become official for Italian oil producers which would make it mandatory to indicate the area of cultivation on [...]

Children who eat a Mediterranean diet packed with fruit, vegetables and nuts are less likely to develop asthma and allergies, say researchers.
A study carried out on the Greek island of Crete found eating high quantities of traditional foods such as olive oil could protect youngsters from wheezing and other allergic symptoms.
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By Stephen Daniells,
The benefits of olive oil for heart health go way beyond just reducing levels of LDL (’bad’) cholesterol, says a new review that looks set to further bolster the healthy image of the oil.
Numerous studies have reported that olive oil - the main fat in the Mediterranean diet - to improved cardiovascular health [...]