Exportation d’huile d’olive Tunisienne dans tous ses états
Par Abou Sarra,
On ne le répètera jamais assez. La Tunisie, actuellement 4ème producteur mondial d’huile d’olive (210.000 tonnes en moyenne par an) et 3ème exportateur (130.000 tonnes), est en mesure de doubler et même de tripler les recettes en devises générées par les exportations de ce produit agricole pour peu qu’elle s’emploie à l’exporter conditionné et non en vrac.
La prise de conscience des pouvoirs publics de cette donne est assez développée. Les structures d’appui à la filière de l’huile d’olive (le Centre technique de l’agroalimentaire, le technopole de l’agroalimentaire de Bizerte, le Centre d’emballage et de conditionnement (Packtec), l’Institut de l’Olivier de Sfax et l’Office de l’huile) multiplient les manifestations de sensibilisation aux enjeux de conditionnement de l’huile d’olive tunisienne.
L’objectif national est de porter le taux d’exportation d’huile d’olive conditionnée de 1% à 10% à l’horizon 2011.
Des initiatives prometteuses, prises ces jours-ci, méritent d’être signalées.
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BioFach 2008: Olive oil awards
From food tasting course to olive oil tasting, there will be much to appeal to the senses of the some 45,000 trade visitors from 21-24 February 2008. Newly introduced at BioFach 2008 is an award for the best organic olive oil. The special feature of this award is the tasters, as the visitors at the exhibition decide the winners.
The Olive Oil Award guarantees an objective assessment of the constantly growing number of olive oils presented at BioFach. Over 60 exhibitors from 10 countries were present with their oils in 2007, the large majority of them also at the Olive Oil Bar. Besides the classics like Italy, Spain and Greece, there were also European “exotics” like Cyprus and Albania. The meanwhile established overseas countries of Chile and Australia were joined by Saudi Arabia and Palestine, the first producers from the Arab region.
According to a survey by the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC), worldwide olive oil production from conventional and organic cultivation in 2006/2007 was 2.86 million tonnes, with 2.14 million tonnes of olive oil produced in the EU in this period. The leader is Spain with 1.1 million tonnes ahead of Italy with 0.6 and Greece with some 0.4.
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Charity association puts used olive oil receptacles around Malaga to prevent contamination of the sea
By Gema Martínez,
The aim of the initiative is to collect 200,000 litres of used olive oil to be converted into soap and bio-diesel. More than one and a half thousand kilos of fats reach the beaches of Malaga province each day
Straight to the rubbish bin. This is where approximately five thousand tons of used olive oil was dumped last year in Malaga city, where only one family in a hundred go to the trouble of having their used cooking oils recycled.
As we all know, oil and water do not mix, and the present water purification systems in use still allow 1,600 kilos of fats and oils to reach the sea each day, forming a white froth on the surface when the water temperature rises. Vegetable fats, along with carbohydrates, are the most common contaminating materials found in analyses of these residues, and are also a major source of contamination of marine flora and fauna.
From now on, however, used olive oil can be used to help finance social aid projects in the poverty-stricken outlying area of Lima, in Peru, where five million people live in unhygienic conditions. Among them are the so-called ‘piraña children’ who survive from day to day on the rubbish tips of the city.
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Italian virgin olive oil must have label
A new law in Italy requires producers of virgin and extra-virgin olive oil to include labels indicating where the olives were picked and pressed.
The purpose is to guarantee authenticity and quality, a report from Rome said.
The consumer group Codacons likes the new law but thinks it’s not enough to eliminate fraud. Members want acidity levels and nutritional benefits on the labels, too, ANSA reported.
The new law was the result of an initiative by the Coldiretti farmers’ union against oils which were being marketed as Italian but were produced using olives and oils from other Mediterranean countries — including Spain, Greece and Tunisia.
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Consuming EVOO helps to combat degenerative diseases.
by Dross,
Consuming extra virgin olive oil helps to combat degenerative diseases, such as cancer or osteoporosis
In the 1960s, Ancer Keys, a US expert on nutrition, studied the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet for the first time. Since then many studies on the benefits of olive oil have been conducted. According to several studies performed in Italy, Spain and Greece (the main olive-oil-producing countries), the incidence of diseases is lower in these countries than in Northern Europe.
The Environmental, Biochemical and Nutritional Analytical-Control Research Group, directed by Professors Alberto Fernández Gutiérrez and Antonio Segura Carretero, used the most advanced analytical techniques for a precise study on the antioxidant properties of olive oil, characterized by its polyphenolic composition and its potential to combat degenerative diseases.
The study was completed with the collaboration of the Institut of Nutrition and Food Technology of the Universidad de Granada and the Nutrition Team of the Hospital Virgen de las Nieves (Granada). Together with the Research Group, they have determined that consumption of olive oil rich in polyphenols (natural antioxidants) improves the lives of people suffering from oxidative stress, and is also highly beneficial for the prevention of cell aging and osteoporosis.
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