FAKE OLIVE OIL IS NOT VIRGIN

Last Thursday I blogged about cooking oils and shared with you a guide to the suitability of certain types of oils for cooking. Ironically, on the same day, leading olive oil brands, including some whose products are sold in British supermarkets, were being investigated over claims they have been labelling cheap alternatives as the expensive extra virgin variety.


Prosecutors in Turin have begun an investigation after tests on 20 bottles taken from supermarket shelves in Italy found that nine did not meet the standard required of extra virgin oil. Seven companies are under investigation:- Carapelli, Bertolli, Santa Sabina, Coricelli, Sasso, Antica Badia, and Primadonna, which is packaged for Lidl. Many of these brands are exported to the UK, raising suspicions that products on supermarket shelves in Britain are fake. Extra virgin olive oil has to be the first press of the harvest and there are other rules governing its production, which make the process expensive and time-consuming.  


But one of the brands under investigation hit back last week. Coricelli said the inquiry was entirely on taste tests by professional tasters that could not reliably say whether the oil met the standards of extra virgin. A spokesman for the company was reported in the UK press as sating, ''The disputed batch was carefully analysed either by the company or independent laboratories and all the analysis confirmed compliance to the quality standards.''


From what I know of  Italian investigations, this one will run and run, much like olive oil itself!

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  2. Interesting Article. Hoping that you will continue posting an article having a useful information. Buy italian olive oil

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  3. I only use a couple oils andunrefined olive oil is one of them. I don't think a lot of people are aware of how many things we can use it for or in. Great that you wrote this.

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