Jul 11, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Seminars/Conference
The International Olive Oil School completed the last scheduled course of its inaugural season last week with a session on olive oil quality assurance broadcast live from the UC Davis Olive Center in California. After a summer break, the school says it will introduce...
Jul 11, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Research
The first Lebanese National Laboratory for Olive Oil Testing was inaugurated Thursday in Kfarshima by the Agriculture Ministry, in line with a project funded by the Italian Embassy in Beirut.
Jul 11, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
Food businesses need to tap into neuroscience and understand how consumers make fast and unconscious decisions, if they are to improve their sales, says a marketing expert.
Jul 11, 2014 | NZ, Olive Oil News
Legend has it that Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, unearthed the first olive tree in Greece and in so doing gave the world olive oil. And for that we are grateful, because today we are sitting down to a four-course slap-up lunch with olive oil as the star of the...
Jul 11, 2014 | EVOO, NZ, Olive Oil News
Certification of 2014 oils is now underway by Olives New Zealand and certification documents are available for downloading from the Olives NZ website here. Certification and the OliveMark provide consumers with a guarantee that your oil is indeed the EVOO it’s...
Jul 11, 2014 | Labelling, NZ, Olive Oil News
Health groups and nutritional experts are at loggerheads over a decision by New Zealand’s government to join Australia’s star rating system, with some criticising it for having ignored research on what works best for food labelling.