Europe's olive cooperatives want shops held liable for oil quality and panel test verdicts made final. What their wishlist would mean for…
The EU's new quality schemes regulation takes effect January 3 and obliges every state to stop fake PDO olive oil. What changes,…
Spain olive oil harvest 2012: the crop is forecast down 49% to 820,000 tons and mill prices are up 27%. What the…
Sierra Mágina and Priego de Córdoba olive oil are now protected names in China under the EU's 10 plus 10 deal. What…
Argentina's Congress declares olive oil a national food. Argentines eat about 125 grams a year; here is what the law says and…
Coles says all its own-label olive oil will meet the Australian Standard by year end, dropping 'light' and 'pure'. What changes, and…
With heating oil near 1.40 euros a liter, thieves in Greece are sawing down olive trees at night. Why olive trees cut…
US olive oil imports hit 290,227 tons in 11 months, up 7 percent, with Spain gaining fast on Italy. Who supplies the…
A Montreal study found one junk-food meal cut artery dilation 24 percent, while a Mediterranean meal cooked in olive oil did not.…
Deoleo gets the Hojiblanca brand and Antequera plant; the cooperative gets 9.63% of Deoleo. What the Deoleo Hojiblanca deal means for your…
Kailis Organic Olive Groves, sunk by $18 million of debt, is sold to six Chinese investors. Why a grove that never made…
The UN counted over 870 Palestinian olive trees cut or burned by settlers as the West Bank olive harvest opened. What it…
A Moroccan-led review says olive mill wastewater phenolics could enrich functional drinks. What it claims, what it does not prove, and why…
Punjab plans olive cultivation with a 10-hectare pilot and farm subsidies, following Rajasthan. Why an olive plan needs patience more than money.
UC Davis tested 21 olive oils sold to US restaurants: 9 of 15 'extra virgin' failed tasting and two held canola. Why…
Olive-pit spitting is a real, faintly absurd sport with world records and a governing body. Where it comes from, how far champions…
Summer heat shuts down the olive fruit fly but shrivels the fruit. How a hot, dry 2012 summer cuts both ways for…
An EU olive oil outlook to 2020 sees Spain growing on irrigation while Italy and Greece make less, just as a drought…
Flora Cuisine's 45% less saturated fat than olive oil ads are cleared by the UK watchdog. Why the complaints failed and what…
A glut of summer herbs and a bottle of olive oil add up to free flavour all winter — if you freeze…
An airport explosives test adapted by Córdoba chemists screens olive oil for fraud in 15 minutes. How it works, how reliable it…
The Consumer Reports olive oil test: 23 extra virgins tasted, only 9 made the grade. California oils won; big brands tasted stale.…
U.S. importers ask the FDA for an olive oil standard of identity defining every grade and test. What the NAOOA petition asks…
Uruguay applies to join the International Olive Council at its first session in Latin America, as Argentina presses for a new campesterol…
Greek olive mills face a new wastewater law that 2,300 three phase mills cannot meet. What it demands and why switching to…
The UC Davis Olive Center is at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, teaching visitors to spot fresh olive oil. How campus olives became…
A Purdue salad dressing study finds more fat means more carotenoids absorbed, and the type matters less. Why it doesn't prove olive…
Dacian Cioloş has unveiled an EU olive oil action plan: tougher fraud testing, a possible new grade and sealed bottles in restaurants.…
In Slow Food's olive oil blind tasting game, over 2,000 Italian diners scored four hidden oils and picked a Sicilian winner. How…
Olive pollen in Jaén passes 2,000 grains per cubic meter as 65 million trees flower. Who suffers, why olive country is different,…
The olive oil price crisis makes the FT front page and the IOC says it is not structural. Prices at origin, the…
A third round of EU olive oil storage aid in eight months: up to 100,000 tons held off the market for 180…
China's olive oil market grew 21% last year, but a Spanish ICEX report warns some importers blend it with cheaper oils. What…
Olive oil grades baffle Spain: under 30% of regular buyers know plain olive oil is a refined blend. What the Jaén study…
Córdoba researchers unveil a canopy shaker harvester for traditional olive groves that catches up to 90% of the fruit. How it works…
Many Greek families buy olive oil from the grower in 17 kilo tins at about 3.50 euros a liter. How the Greek…
An olive oil glut is coming: the IOC now puts world output at 3.31 million tons. Why Barjol credits U.S. buyers and…
Brazil olive oil imports hit a record 65,000 tons, with Portugal supplying 55%. What the IOC figures show and why prices at…
USDA's Quality Monitoring Program now covers olive oil, and Pompeian is first in. How USDA olive oil quality monitoring works and what…
Olive oil testing behind closed doors: the IOC barred observers from its chemists' meeting in Madrid. What critics said and what the…
Spain's driest winter in some 70 years has farmers warning the next olive harvest could be cut in half. What the Spain…
Olive variety identification by DNA: Córdoba's IDolive checks a leaf against about 500 varieties in 20 days. How it works and why…
Olive oil and memory: older Spaniards who ate more virgin olive oil scored better on verbal memory tests. What the study found…
Argentina's strategic plan expects olive oil and table olive output to double by 2020 on 110,720 hectares. What the numbers say, and…
A study of Montefrío's olive groves finds 29 to 40% of fertile soil lost in 250 years, and that traditional farming was…
Spanish police say palm, avocado and sunflower oils were passed off as olive oil in Jaén. What we know so far about…
Olive theft in Córdoba: 34 people charged and 8 tons of stolen olives recovered in two weeks. How the theft works, and…
Jaén's Active Museum of Olive Oil opens at Geolit: 7 million euros, a gastronomy center and olive routes. What is inside and…
A BMJ study of 40,757 Spaniards found no link between fried food and heart disease fried in olive or sunflower oil. What…
The EU has codified its olive oil labeling rules as Regulation 29/2012. What a bottle must say about origin, cold pressing, acidity…
The Aceite de Jaén PGI loses its temporary protection after a Granada court froze the application. Why a label for all of…
China's AQSIQ tells inspectors to scrutinize Italian olive oil after reports that most 'Italian' oil holds foreign oil. Why the real issue…