Cancer causing preserved black olives in the market
By B.M/ Translation A. Ait El Hara,
Competent services at ministries of Health and Commerce (Algeria) have opened comprehensive investigations on alleged cancer causer preserved black olive quantities being commercialized these days, well informed sources told El Khabar.
The same sources further added that the initial clues of the investigation said traders likely tend mixing black olives with significant quantities of potassium, which causes cancer cells.
By overusing Potassium, traders target accelerating the fermentation of black olives and commercialize as much quantities as possible during Ramadan. However, prices and competence direction has opened investigations with wholesale and retail traders, as well as making analysis on preserved black olive samples.
Initial clues proved that the abovementioned black olives are being preserved with unhealthy manner, as some “conscienceless producers” tend adding high concentrated potassium to black olive quantities to accelerate the fermentation and prolonging the expiration date.
Analysis further proved that the abovementioned preservation method is likely to cause cancer epidemic, stressing that washing the black olives before consuming it, does not clean them from the dangerous potassium.
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Is your Olive Oil pure?
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich,
You may think you’re buying pure olive oil, but some suppliers are adulterating it with cheaper oils. Now the Bactochem lab in Nes Ziona (Israel) has developed a technique to identify olive oil that has been mixed with other oils, even at levels of only 5%.
Moshe Heller, who developed the technique, says it is based on the identification of a fatty acid. It measures the percentage of sigma sterol (that doesn’t exist in olive oil); if it’s present, it means the oil has been adulterated.
About 40% of the “olive oil” sold here is not authentic (in Israel).
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Mexican Duties on EU Olive Oil Are Illegal, WTO Rules
By Jennifer M. Freedman,
Mexican import duties on olive oil from Italy, Spain and Greece are illegal, World Trade Organization judges ruled, backing a complaint by the European Union while rejecting the bloc’s call for a repeal of the taxes.
“Having found that Mexico has acted inconsistently with provisions” of WTO rules on subsidies and import duties, “we recommend that Mexico bring its measures into conformity,” judges said in a 110-page report posted today on the Geneva- based WTO’s Web site.
The EU, which produces four fifths of the world’s olive oil, said when asking judges to rule on the case in December 2006 that Mexican duties as high as 30 percent were imposed in August 2005 without any evidence of a threat to the domestic industry. Mexico imported 8,000 metric tons of olive oil worth $21 million annually from the EU when the complaint was lodged.
The Mexican government said the measures, imposed in August 2005, complied with WTO rules and were necessary because of European olive oil subsidies.
Judges ruled against Mexico on several points, including exceeding the time limit on its investigation and the country’s failure to base the probe on evidence that would allow an objective examination of the data.
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Meknes to host 3rd Mediterranean Days of Olive Tree in October
The 3rd “Mediterranean Days of Olive Tree” will take place on October 27-29 in Meknes (14km east of Rabat) under the theme “Challenges of Olive Oil Production: variety, quality, Label, registered designation of origin and Marketing.”
Initiated by the Olive Tree Agropolis and the National School of Agriculture of Meknès in partnership with the International University of Andalusia, the event features technical, scientific and cultural seminars as well as visits of farms, mills, oil mills and historic or natural sites, tasting sessions of olives and olive oil and other gastronomic activities.
Prominent national and international experts will lead the seminars that will revolve around different themes, such as “International Market of olive oil, promotion strategies, marketing and distribution network”, “Agronomic and industrial factors (processing, storage and packaging) affecting the quality of olive oil” and “Quality norms (chemical and sensory /tasting), label and registered designation of origin.”
The aim is to initiate long-term dynamic cooperation between the experts of each olive-growing country in the Mediterranean.
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South Africa:olives industry wants taxes
By Nigel Austin,
THE fast-growing South Australian olive industry wants to impose a tax of up to $6 a tonne on itself to help fund market development and lift productivity.
Olives SA president Lisa Rowntree said a three-month consultation process had revealed widespread industry support for the fund.
“Not only was feedback positive, it also identified the urgent need for industry projects that address supply chain failures in the industry,” she said.
“Many growers who are currently unable to access markets for small amounts of olive oil said they wanted an effective mechanism for selling oil.”
Growers, representing 70 per cent of the state’s total olive production, were consulted.
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