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The Italian Trade Commission said Wednesday it will hold a food fair in Tokyo on Oct. 18 to promote prize-winning Italian olive oils and other popular food including pasta, cheeses, candy and wines. The event will highlight in particular olive oils which won the prestigious Ercole Olivario awards presented each year in Spoleto, a city […]

In 1954 Cooperativa Virgen del Castillo was founded, it is the main cooperative of ALMAZARAS DE LA SUBBETICA. Since this date there is very hard work looking for the High Quality. This hard work has made as a result that we have an extra virgin olive oil that is always better than anyone, around the […]

*CIA (Italian Farmers Confederation) It has now become a true business. You can even buy them on the Internet.Their price ranges from three thousand to ten thousand euros. It’s a “supermarket” of centuries-old olive trees, an illegal trade set up by criminals who steal trees on commission from Apulia, Calabria and other southern olive-growing regions […]

By Iota Sykka – Kathimerini Museum of Industrial Oil Production on Lesvos, funded by Piraeus Bank, is now open to visitors The Museum of Industrial Oil Production on the northern Aegean island of Lesvos is the fourth such achievement by the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, which has launched a network of museums focusing on […]

By David Bradley, Extracting oil from olives requires solvents and residues of halogenated solvent can sometimes leave a toxic taint in the product. European Union rules restricted the acceptable levels of these residues for the sake of public health but new sensitive and precise analytical procedures are needed to allow strict quality control and regulatory […]