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By Heather Hacking, It’s not technically winter yet, but you wouldn’t know that with frost on the windshields in morning and the trip to the morning shower including being able to see your breath. Yet, while humans are bundling up, area crops have not been affected by the chilly temperatures. Bigger threats to the industry […]

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 […]

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 […]

California suppliers cash in on burgeoning demand. By Eric Leach, Rosemarie Fusano was born into the olive oil business in the 1940s San Fernando Valley, where signs along the highway once proclaimed Sylmar the biggest olive-growing area in the world. Over the next few decades, the industry in the Valley dried up when cheaper vegetable […]

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 […]