May 2, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Olives and Health
Functional foods weathered the global economic recession better than most food categories despite a high product failure rate, according to a US-based branding and market expert.
May 2, 2014 | International News/Trends, Labelling, Olive Oil News, Olives and Health
Over the last year I have been writing about the controversy in Greece over the implementation of EU labeling regulation 432/2012 which states: “Olive oil polyphenols contribute to the protection of blood lipids from oxidative stress.” The regulation further states,...
May 2, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Olives and Health
More than 140,000 people – a third of them from beyond Spain – visited the Alimentaria food and drink trade fair in Barcelona and organizers say more than 5,000 of them tried olive oils in the olive oil tasting bar. Held March 31 to April 3 and billed as fourteen...
May 2, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Olives and Health
Spain, the largest maker of olive oil, set up a watchdog for “strategic” food industries to bring transparency to agricultural markets and help probe wrongdoings. Olives, olive oil and milk are among the products initially monitored under a law published today in the...
May 2, 2014 | Olive Oil News, Olives and Health
The risk of consuming harmful heavy metals by eating produce from China’s heavily polluted farmland is now so great that one Australian industry body has warned a parliamentary inquiry due to look into country-of-origin labelling laws that current requirements put the...
May 2, 2014 | Olive Oil News, Olives and Health
First there was the press release in my inbox saying that butter is one of the healthy fats we should eat more of ”to encourage weight loss and optimum health”. Hot on its heels came a new book by a celebrity chef recommending we cook with butter or...
