![]() ![]() ![]() But the scandalous trade of a sublime product - olive oil’s use as a sacred unguent predates even the Romans - continued. About 800 people died.Įven the Roman traders were exasperated by olive oil being manipulated and adulterated, so they created customised amphorae with inscriptions indicating where the oil was produced, its quality at shipment and the “imperial functionary who received it in Rome”. With lines such as “he estimates that about 98% of all (European Union) olive oils are adulterated”, some of it makes for sickening reading, literally: in Spain in 1981, the “toxic oil syndrome” left more than “20,000 people … poisoned by fake olive oil made from rapeseed oil denatured with aniline, a toxic organic compound”. This book, written to international acclaim, has opened a big can of worms in the olive oil market, mostly among consumers, for the huge global olive oil industry already knows about its scandals. TITLE: Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. ![]()
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