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In Europe Olive oil is also one of the most faked type of food.

• dunk010 10y ago
  Citation?
  • ygra 10y ago
    Faked would be too much to say, but the German Stiftung Warentest tested 26 different olive oils recently and found that none of them were correctly labelled [½]. For the most part this concerned the alleged origin country, but there were also several with contaminants. Nothing health-endangering, but still not allowed to be labelled "Natives Olivenöl Extra" (the highest quality category of olive oil). No mention of blends with other types of oil, though. ____________ [½] https://www.test.de/Olivenoel-Jedes-zweite-im-Test-ist-mangelhaft-4971053-0/?mc=kurzurl.olivenoel https://www.test.de/Olivenoel-Jedes-zweite-im-Test-ist-mange...
    • Noseshine 10y ago
      Actually, I think you make it sound too nice. The test results are actually pretty bad. Overall that test wasn't really all that useful though - they tested very few products. It's a tiny sample. One thing to note: They mention that for each 1,000 tons of olive oil only one sample has to be drawn and tested - which shows how little we really know about the quality, and low the probability is to be caught. Given that I don't believe Europeans are "better people" than Americans or anyone else I think it's safe to assume there are plenty of cases of fraud we know nothing about. For Germany in particular I have this anecdote: An Italian friend of mine used to do whole-sale import food to Germany for Italian food producers. He told me that they export the "good stuff" to countries like Spain and France - and the bad but cheap stuff to Germany. He told me Germans and therefore German importers care about price first of all.