![]() ![]() Olive-oil fraud has been around for millennia. Mueller recently took the time to answer questions on olive oil and the risks involved in its trade an edited version of the exchange appears below. ![]() Mueller has expanded the scope of his article’s research with his recent book “ Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil,” which focusses on the contamination of olive oil not only by seed oils but by the misuse of the label “extra virgin” on olive oils that don’t meet that designation’s standards. Nearly five years later, fraud remains a problem. “Olive oil is far more valuable than most other vegetable oils, but it is costly and time-consuming to produce-and surprisingly easy to doctor.” The E.U.’s anti-fraud office established an olive-oil task force, “yet fraud remains a major international problem,” Mueller wrote. By the late nineteen-nineties, olive oil-often cut with cheaper oils, such as hazelnut and sunflower seed-was the most adulterated agricultural product in the European Union. In the August 13, 2007, issue of the magazine, Tom Mueller wrote about corruption in the olive-oil trade. ![]()
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