Italy – Prosecutors are investigating seven olive oil producers for fraudulently selling ordinary olive oil as highly prized extra-virgin.
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Prosecutors in the northern city of Turin announced the investigation Tuesday after customs officials independently confirmed the findings by the magazine “Il Test,” which published a cover story last spring revealing that nine out of 20 bottles it tested were not extra-virgin as labeled.
The Italian farm lobby Coldiretti called on authorities to better protect Italy’s olive oil sector, second only to Spain’s with estimated annual revenues of 2 billion euros. Coldiretti said that the fraud was often perpetrated by adding imported olive oil to domestic, noting that Italy was the No. 1 olive oil importer in the world.
most of the health food business is based on deception anyway.
The Rambam in hilcols daat, says it is better to eat less of unhealthy food that over eat healthy food. Next time you go to a kiddush in shul look around and see who is really following the opinion of the Rambam….
Happy Chanukah!
if there is deception involved, then there may be kashrus concerns too?