Trying to sell your California oil with scare tactics about certifications may work with some but.those tactics just raise the prices and enrich the certification people/government. It is simply NOT TRUE that "you never know what is in the bottle ...
I would also suggest promoting california or US grown olive oil to consumers. Along with C.O.O.C. certified oil. Since there isn't any FDA regulations on oil and you never know what is in the bottle when you buy imports or non-COOC cert oils. Cali...
That is an interesting theory for mechanical harvesting. I personally would prefer the olives to be mechanical harvested. I might be partial since that is how our family harvests our own olives. Reason being a critical factor in producing premium ...
Alejandro, Thank you for joining and jumping right into the discussion. It's great to see how inquisitive you are about olive oil. Feel free to peruse my blog -- www.iloveoliveoilblog.com -- where I write about some of the questions you pose. I hope you're free on Sunday, Jan. 18, because we'll be holding our first online tasting then. Stay tuned!