Apr 19, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
France has increased the tax on palm oil imports, amid heated protests from big producing countries like Malaysia and Indonesia. This tax, proposed as part of the biodiversity bill, was definitively adopted on 17 March, ending the advantageous tax rate that the...
Apr 19, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
Franco Boeri Roi’s decision to make extra virgin olive oil from the trees growing at the Golf Club degli Ulivi in Sanremo arose from the desire to safeguard the almost 1,700 olive trees, 1,400 of which are now producing olive oil. In Liguria, Olive Oil from a Golf...
Apr 19, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
The chemical markers, in other words the elements that give us the taste and aroma of olive oil, have been analysed in different institutional seats and conferences recently: from the EU Commission in Brussels to the chemical and sensory groups of the International...
Apr 7, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
The Taipei District Court sentenced Wei Ying-chung, former chairman of Ting Hsin Oil and Fat Industrial Co and Wei Chuan Foods Corp, to four years in prison Friday for fraud in an oil adulteration scandal.
Apr 7, 2016 | General Olive News, International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
Georgia’s first ever olive processing plant has opened in eastern Georgia’s Kakheti region. Yesterday Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili attended the opening of the factory, which was financially supported by a state program. Within the program, about 300 hectares...
Apr 7, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
The olive tree is living proof that beauty has nothing to do with perfection. The evolution of the twisted and gnarled wood into the collection of lanceolate and graceful leaves reaches the best aesthetic expression in monumental plants: the slashes imprinted in the...
