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They sieve, blow and wash any foreign bodies out.

• threeseed 7y ago
  Be curious to know how they wash it. Because having olives lying next to dead birds sure sounds like a disease risk.
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  • Mediterraneo10 7y ago
    Olives have to be cured in e.g. lye to become edible. Wouldn’t that kill off pathogens?
    • pvaldes 7y ago
      Not to mention the salt Curing olives implies to wash the raw fruit in saltwater and spices and discard the water after some hours or days. The procedure is redone as times as necessary to ged rid of the sour flavour. You can not eat it raw and green, they taste horrible.
  • darkpuma 7y ago
    If this were a real concern as you're hypothesizing, then we'd already have the data of olive oil making tons of people sick. Even relatively tiny outbreaks of food borne illness from spinach make the news, so where are all the people getting salmonella from olive oil? When the observed data doesn't fit your theory, then you need to reevaluate your theory no matter how much common sense it seems to make. If the figures of the article are accurate, there is something in the neighborhood of one dead bird per ton of olive oil from Portugal. That's enough that if it were poisoning the oil, people would be dropping dead in droves. Consuming olive oil would be like playing Russian roulette.. but it's not.