olive oil adulteration (2)

Greek police have broken up a suspected olive oil adulteration operation and arrested 7 people. They have investigated a company in the Larissa region, which has been adding a green colourant to sunflower oil and selling it as extra virgin olive oil or olive oil from high quality production areas such as Crete or Messinia. The bottled oil was sold in retail and catering in Greece, as well as being exported to Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.   . 

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In Pursuit of Food System Integrity

This academic paper presents a conceptual and analytical framework for preventing food fraud informed by a situational understanding of the nature of the activities and behaviours involved in the fraud. By integrating models of enterprise with models of in-place preventative action, we can gain a fuller theoretical account of food frauds and how we can prevent them. The paper uses various olive oil fraud investigations to develop its arguments.

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