Olive oil fraud typically happens in two main ways: producers mislabeling lower-quality oils as premium products, such as ...

The bottle must include the text: 'Superior category olive oil obtained directly from olives and solely by mechanical means'. 2. Tastes bitter and peppery Fake oils have little or no flavour while ...

The current olive oil shortage has caused a spike in pricing of this traditional tree crop, which has had a similar effect on ...

Oil’s well that ends well. Italian authorities put a stop to a network of slippery fraudsters who were selling fake oil by the truckload — with cops seizing 42 tons of packaged “extra virgin ...

There he learned about chemistry, food pairing, how to spot olive oil and the food production process. One of the things he quickly realized was how much fake olive oil is on the shelves in ...

Olive oil is perhaps one of the most delightful food staples on the planet. But unfortunately, it's also one of the most commonly counterfeited foods. As Larry Olmsted, author of the new book ...

Dallas-based Deoleo North America, the parent company of globally recognized olive oil brands Bertolli, Carapelli, and ...

Shopping for olive oil is like shopping for wine: Any bottle can get the job done, and no grape — or olive in this case — is technically “better” than another, says Dino Borri, global vice ...

All this has led to a rise in fraud in the EU. In July this year, £750,000 worth of fake olive oil, suspected of being coloured green with chlorophyll, and labelled as “extra virgin” was ...

Spanish police seized almost 3,000 litres of fake olive oil which could have been sold for €20,500 (£17,313) from Huelva, newly-released video shows. Guardia Civil officials shared footage of ...

In one instance, a facility that produces knock-off oil seals gets shut down once a year only to re-open at full capacity. That plant had the capacity to produce seven million fake oil seals per ...