FDA Olive Recall Does Not Affect Greek Olives
An update of this post.
From deTraci Regula,
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced an olive recall as some olives produced in Italy are contaminated with botulism, a potentially deadly bacterium.
The affected labels include cans, glass jars & pouches of Cerignola, Nocerella & Castelvetrano olives produced under the names Borrelli, Bonta di Puglia, Cento, Corrado’s, Dal Raccolto, Flora, Roland & Vantia.
Although Greece, and especially Crete, supplies olives and olive oil to many packers in Italy, the problem apparently has occured in the Italian processing plants, so Greek olives are not affected by the recall.
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Caltech branches into … olive oil
By Larry Gordon,
Take 130 trees dropping olives on campus walkways. Add in students seeking prankish respite from their studies. Mix in a French-born university president with a taste for Mediterranean cuisine.
That’s the formula for making olive oil at Caltech.
The institution better known for rocket science is launching its own brand of the golden kitchen condiment, produced from the trees on its Pasadena campus. A minor flood — upward of 300 gallons — is expected this fall.
“We are here to educate students, but we are also there to give them an opportunity to experience different things in life,” Caltech President Jean-Lou Chameau, an engineer who loves cooking, said in explaining why a school without a botany course is embracing a project that seems more suited to a farm college than a Nobel Prize factory.
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Organic Agriculture in Tunisia is growing with olive trees
In order to develope organic agriculture in Tunisia and raise more awareness in the farmers of this very promising market in the future says, journalist Ridha Bahlous in Allafrica, a colloquium has been organized recently, which was chosen to promote this form of agriculture.
The Nefza region places natural potentials such as wide spread forests, never ending paths and very interesting agricultural crops important: In these honey, aromatic and medicinal oils (3 tons per year), and also cork (1.000 tons per year) are produced.
Organic fruit arboriculture will be reinforced in Testour, Djebba and in Thibar and this, according to the map of organic agriculture traced for the region. The organic olive trees for table olives shall be extended by 500 ha (equivalent to 750 t production), for olive oil production by 1500 ha (equivalent to 400 t production).
Six localities of the Nefza delegation will be concerned, primarily Ouchtata, Tabouba, Ezzouaraa and Cap Nigro. These localities cover an area of more than 22,000 hectares, of which 21,000 are forests. The regional strategy for the promotion of organic agriculture is based on several important actions. Foremost is the raising of consciousness of interested farmers, the number exceeding 1,500. The diversification of organic production and its expansion comes next, especially in the domains of fruit, cereals, medical and aromatic crops, and lastly the development of organic animal produce.
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Genosa, Aquanova team-up brings olive extract for healthy oils
By Stephen Daniells,
Collaboration between Spanish R&D company Genosa and Germany’s Aquanova has produced a nanoscale olive extract with soluble in both water and fats, for use in healthy oils and supplements worldwide.
“At this moment, there are no products containing high concentrations of [the antioxidant] hydroxytyrosol that can be used in lipophilic [oil-based] products,” said Genosa I+D.
Genosa’s Carlos Peña told NutraIngredients.com that the product, a clear solution, will be mainly used in lipiphilic products, like healthy oils and lipid- (omega-3) containing supplements.
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Vinolive 2007 To Begin On April 26th
4th Wine, Olive, Oliveoil and Alcoholic Beverages fair Vinolive 2007 organised by Izmir Fair Services Culture and Art Affairs Trade Inc.(IZFAS) will be held between April 26th and 29th in Izmir.
According to a statement issued from IZFAS, 130 companies will attend the fair intended for the participation of professionals in the sector.
The fair aims at displaying the quality and wide variety of grapes and olives in Anadolu and increase the competitive power of Turkish companies in the global arena.
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