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By Anne M. Hamilton, The stock market may be tanking, jobs are disappearing and the state budget is hundreds of millions in the red, but at least our olive oil will be safe. Prompted by a complaint from a Norwalk importer, the state Department of Consumer Protection has enacted regulations guarding the purity of olive […]

By Courtney Walsh, Italians live longer than most people. They also consume huge amounts of olive oil — a staple of the Mediterranean diet. https://videopress.com/v/WdLvHPlB Most Italians are convinced that the two are related. Indeed the ancient Romans so revered olive oil they once used it for currency. Nowadays Italian olive oil is sold throughout […]

By Leslie White, AUSTRALIA’S competition watchdog will investigate the apparent failure of some imported olive oils to live up to their premium “extra virgin” label. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission inquiry follows tests by a NSW Government laboratory that found many imported oils labelled as extra virgin were actually a lower grade oil, were […]

Seymours of Norfolk, the fine food importers, producer and distributor based in Norwich, UK, recently added a range of Greek olives to its ever-increasing range. Richard Seymour, owner, says “we literally drove to the Mediterranean in search of the best olives we could find. There are a lot of olive groves in the med, and […]

Spanish olive oil giant Carbonell has demanded to see test results that found some of its products wanting will do nothing to address the image problem confronting large, foreign olive-oil producers. It has been no secret in Australian olive oil industry circles for some years that many imported brands were not living up to their […]