Apr 8, 2013 | Olive Oil News
The industry is mourning the loss of popular member Dan Burnett, who passed away in March after an accident in Rome. Dan was a leading boutique producer of olives and olive oil in southern Queensland and ran Visit Oz (www.visitoz.org), providing work and work...
Apr 8, 2013 | Olive Oil News
North West Tasmanian farmers are preparing to challenge olive oil in the premium end of the oil market. The Nichols family at Redbank farm at Sisters Creek are in the throes of pressing oil from their second crop of canola. But unlike the bulk commodity canola, this...
Apr 8, 2013 | Olive Oil News
After more than two years of work and negotiation with the government, the AOA has recently announced that the long-awaited national Research and Development Levy (R&D Levy) will commence on 1 May 2013. The levy received an 83% yes vote in the June 2011 ballot...
Feb 15, 2013 | Labelling, Olive Oil News
Debate over what information should appear on olive oil bottles – and how prominently – continues in Europe as the European Commission drafts promised new labeling laws. The EC has not made its proposals public, but they are said to include rules on positioning and...
Feb 15, 2013 | Olive Oil News
Tom Mueller, whose investigations of the olive oil industry for The New Yorker and his 2011 book, “Extra Virginity, the Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil,” helped give rise to a global discussion of olive oil quality, has stirred a new debate on his blog, this...
Jan 21, 2013 | Olive Oil News
An international debate has begun in the olive oil sector on issues to do with labeling, such as whether to require ‘best before’ or ‘use by’ dates. And one of the most pressing questions is what to do about often unavoidable slight changes affecting virgin olive...
