Antonio Celentano Olive Oil

"Details of HTS Code 150910 US Import Data from Tunisia"

"US Imports Data Shipments searched hts code 150910 from Tunisia"

usimports.info

"Seven arrested for selling bogus olive oil in Greece and abroad"

"They were found operating a workshop where they added a dye to turn the yellow sunflower seed oil into a green hue "

nbc4i.com

"Extra Virgin Olive Oil Fraud in California"

"According to allegations in the three separate complaints, the labels on Defendants products mislead consumers by stating that the olive oil bottles are “IMPORTED FROM ITALY", despite the fact that the olives from which they are made are neither grown nor pressed in Italy, and that they are of the “extra virgin" grade, despite the fact that they are not"

TZLegal.com

"Extra Virgin Olive Oil Fraud in D.C. Superior Court"

"lawsuits against supermarkets for falsely marketing inferior olive oils as “extra virgin olive oil"

TZLegal.com

"Class action lawsuit"

"Koller vs. Med Foods, Inc."

California Northern District Court

"Is Your Olive Oil Lying About Its Virginity?"

"It used to be substitution with soybean and sunflower seed oil. But one of the big problems now is what they call deodorized oil"

NYMag.com

"La mafia del aceite de oliva se embolsa en Italia 5.000 milliones de euros"

"Se trata de un refinado fraude comercial, un negocio ilegal, que ve implicados al menos una decena de marcas"

abc.es

"Forget the IRS - There’s an Olive-Oil Scandal Afoot"

"The vast majority of olive-oil brands in supermarkets come from companies that don’t own a single olive tree. They obtain the oil from middlemen, who don’t necessarily get it directly from the grower (or, in most cases, growers). With so many hands in the vat, it’s tough to know when and where adulteration or spoilage occurs unless there’s an inspection at every step of the way."

TIME

"The great olive oil scam - How expensive extra virgin dressing could actually be a cheap imitation "

"..... the industry is so badly taken advantage of by fraudsters and crooks, it is possible that the last bottle of olive oil you bought didn't contain olive oil at all"

Daily Mail

"Something fishy? Counterfeit foods enter the U.S. market"

"Olive oil ... This luxury oil, touted for its heart-health properties and taste .... It's also one of the most frequently counterfeited food products"

USA Today

"Slippery Business: The Trade in Adulterated Olive Oil "

"Yet extra-virgin oil is also easy to fake, either by combining some extra-virgin oil with another oil, adding colorings to it or simply mislabeling its origin" .... "Those practices are especially common in Italy"

The New Yorker

"Extra Virgin Olive Oil: Great to Taste, Easy to Fake"

"More sophisticated scams, like D.. R...’s, typically take place at high-tech refineries, where the oil is doctored with substances like hazelnut oil and deodorized lampante olive oil, which are extremely difficult to detect by chemical analysis."

Wall St. Journal

"Olive Oil Fraud Rampant As Demand Skyrockets "

"Italian extra-virgin olive oil has become so lucrative that adulterated olive oil has become the biggest source of agricultural fraud problems in the European Union"

NPR

"Faux 'Olive Oil' seized by U.S. Marshals"

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration tested the chemical composition of the oil and found it was really less expensive soybean oil"

Bangor Daily News

"Law Forces Italian Olive Oil Sellers to Tell the Truth"

"It's a con pure and simple..."

Canada.com

"Italian Police Crack Olive Oil Scam"

"In all, seven olive oil plants were closed and about 40 people were arrested for allegedly adding sunflower and soybean oil to olive oil and selling it as extra-virgin olive oil in Italy and abroad"

Upi

"Murky Italian olive oil to be pored over "

"The labeling will also help to erase the common practice of marking olive oil as "extra virgin"." ..."A television investigation by RAI, the state broadcaster, tracked a load of olio di sansa, the oil that is extracted from the pulp after the extra virgin has been pressed, as it passed through Turkey." .."When the oil left the Turkish port on its way to Italy, it was certified as extra virgin."

Telegraph

"Snippets from the Italian Scene Olive Oil Fraud"

"it turns out that almost all of the Virgin and Extra virgin olive oil produced by large commercial Italian olive oil plants owes its certification to slight of hand of one sort or another. Much is olio lampante, which is made from olives that have fallen from the trees, are collected with huge vacuum cleaners, and pressed, at which point the resulting oil is reprocessed to make it palatable."

Italianfood.about.com

"Algorithms for the detection of hazelnut oil in olive oil"

"The method allows the detection of low percentages of hazelnut oil in olive oil (5 %)"

Instituto de la Grasa - Sevilla, Spain

"When a price is too low for olive oil, it is a ransom price for seed oil "

"My customers [other distributors] knew from the price that I was not selling them 100% olive oil. The real crooks are the ones selling a blended oil for the price of olive oil"

North American Olive Oil Association

"German Periodical "Feinschmecker" Exposes Fraud in Supermarket Olive Oil"

"Keep in mind that these refined oils are also sold cheaply. None of the refined oils sold as "extra virgin" cost more than € 2.60 per .75 liter bottle ... this is under the production costs of true Italian "extra virgin". The cheapest "true" extra virgin compared in the same article was € 10.00 per half liter for a Greek product"

Olive University News

"Legislators in a lather over impure olive oil products "

"The legislators claim that oils labeled as "olive oil" produced by these companies are up to 90 percent mustard seed oil or sun flower oil, but are sold at a higher price because of the better reputation of olive oil. They also claim that the presence of oils other than olive oil are not noted on the labels"

Taipei Times