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A few years back I remember bad cooking oil in Spain led to some very serious adverse health effects. Good on the police for catching the adulterated oil purveyors.
An insane amount of olive oil.
Olive oil production
(Annual average 2016 to 2021)
3,104,000 tonnes
Specific gravity at 20 °C = 0.911
( meaning 0.911 tonnes / 1000 litres )
… = 3,407,244,786 litres5000 litres is 1/681,449 of annual prod.
(still a big amount for the average folks)Olive oil regulation and adulteration
While less than 10% of world olive oil production meets the criteria for labeling as extra-virgin, it has been estimated that up to 50% of retail oil is labeled “extra-virgin”. Some oil labeled “extra-virgin” is diluted with cheaper olive oils or other vegetable oils.
So, ~40% of
productionretail is adulterated
… = 1,362,897,914 litres (or ++)How many liters before we get to use a cool prefix? Gigaliters? Petaliters?
How many Sydney harbours of olive oil is this?
stealing their “extra virgin” legitimacy
Fat Tony has been doing it for quite a while
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The investigation, carried out by the Guardia Civil in conjunction with Italy’s carabinieri and Europol, led to raids in both countries and the searching of olive-processing cooperatives in the Spanish provinces of Ciudad Real, Jaén and Córdoba.
Suspicions were first raised when Guardia Civil officers discovered “a series of anomalies” while inspecting a lorry that was transporting olive oil in Ciudad Real region.
“A mix of various factors, such as the general inflation of prices, reduced olive oil production and increasing demand, have created the perfect breeding ground for fraudulent producers,” it said.
“Mixing consumer-grade olive oil with lower grade alternatives allowed the criminals to offer competitive prices while entering legal supply chains.
Spanish production has been hit by drought and heatwaves of more than 40C, while the crisis has been exacerbated by extreme weather in other olive-producing countries such as Greece, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Morocco.
Extra virgin olive oil is not the only Spanish culinary staple to fall victim to criminal gangs in recent years.
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Someone un-virgined the olive oil
My first thought when I read the headline was “so that’s the opposite of ‘virgin.’”
“Well Fucked”?
