Dec 11, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
Following the case of 3,200 gallons of untraceable oil seized in Tuscany last month, another scandal arising from the scarcity of Italian olive oil was uncovered this week. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry announced that the Central Inspectorate for the...
Dec 11, 2014 | EVOO, International News/Trends, Labelling, Olive business, Olive Oil News
2014 will be known by Italian olive oil producers as the ‘black year’ – a particularly bad one for a number of reasons – among them the fact that the weather has been great if you’re an olive fruit fly, and a bacterial blight that seemed to come from...
Dec 11, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
The Council’s November 2014 newsletter released today reports that olive oil producers in Europe are expected to experience a significant 38-percent decrease, with Spain and Italy the worst hit, while Greece will experience a dramatic increase in production, and...
Dec 11, 2014 | EVOO, International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
With the support of Turkey’s Ministry of Industry, the olive oil producer Nar Gourmet is taking a new step in the olive oil sector with a project that will bring the factory to the fields. Local olives from Hatay, Mersin, Antalya, Manisa, Ayvalık could be processed...
Dec 11, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive business
82% olive oil, 12% laurel oil and soda. There are only three ingredients in the world’s oldest soap: the soap of Aleppo. The product has been the same for centuries beyond the walls of the historic citadel of Aleppo, in Northern Syria. Being all natural without any...
Dec 11, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
One can never be too sure of anything in this old world, but an end may well be in sight to the legal troubles arising out of marketing pomace oil as pure olive oil by Kangadis Food, Inc. under their Capatriti brand, as well as those of the company’s principals,...