Archive for the 'Europe | U.K' Category

21 Dec

Spain:the Internacional Fair of Olive Oil and Allied Industries

the XIIIth edition of Expoliva, the Internacional Fair of Olive Oil and Allied Industries, that it will be held from the 16th to the 19th May 2007 in Jaén, Andalusia, with the certainty that it will show again the strength of the olive oil sector and the olive grove that produces it. Ferias Jaén has […]

19 Dec

Mexico Blocks Probe of Olive Oil Duties

Mexico has temporarily blocked a World Trade Organization investigation into whether duties it imposes on European olive oil violate international commerce rules, officials said Tuesday. However, an investigative panel will automatically be established next month, if the 25-nation European Union repeats its complaint at the WTO’s dispute settlement body, trade officials said. The move to […]

17 Dec

Italy: UNAPROL, Magnetic resonance against fraud.

Nuclear magnetic resonance could very soon solve the problems linked to counterfeit and sophistication of extra-virgin olive oil, particularly protected olive oils using specific kinds of olives, an investigation by the Trace project, tracing food commodities in Europe, shows; the project is financed by the EU in order to find methods and systems to allow […]

13 Dec

Impact of Sewage Sludge Compost Utilization on Chemical Properties of Olive Grove Soils

The United Nations Environmental Program has established that 23% of European soils are chemically, physically or biologically degraded by heavy metals, chemical fertilizers or pesticides, compaction and erosion, or loss of organic matter and biodiversity that may significantly change crop development. By Beltrn, Eulalia M; de Imperial, Rosario Miralles; Porcel, Miguel A; Beringola, M Luisa; […]

13 Dec

Kalamata Freshly picked olives…

Nikita Kotsiaris/ANA Freshly picked olives spill out of sacks in Kalamata, in the southern Peloponnese, where the harvest season is currently in full swing. Greece is the world’s third-largest producer of olive oil after Spain and Italy, producing 350,000 tons of olive oil annually. Greece is also the world’s biggest producer of black olives. [Source] […]