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SUSPECT Arrives in aluminum/ tin can containing nickel. No harvest date. No COOC label of approval.
This olive oil arrives in an aluminum / tin can containing nickel, which ruins products. It will not buy it again. Additionally, I have never before seen a cold-pressed olive oil that is packaged in tin. Because cold-pressed if a high grade, across the board internationally they use glass or BPA free plastic. So I sincerely double that this is actually cold-pressed oil. I will need buy this product again. Even though it says it's manufactured in California, it states that its a product of Italy, and that it's process in a plant which also processes peanut, soy and sesame products. This might be their protection in case their oil is tested and found to have other nut / seed in their composition, because many fraud olive oils thin their main product with peanut, soy and sesame oils. No where to be seen is there the COOC seal on the can. And no where to be seen is there a 'harvest date' on the can (which means they might have mixed old harvest oils with fresh harvest oils. There is only a ' best by ...' stamp on the bottom, which Forbes magazine says means nothing. A quote from Fraudster Magazine below : "In 2007, U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigators and U.S. marshals confiscated more than 10,000 cases of olive oil in New York and New Jersey storage facilities. Analysis revealed that the bottles labeled as “extra virgin olive oil” contained mostly soybean and low-grade olive-pomace oil. The estimated value of the seized products was more than $700,000, according to the NPR story."
December 2018 · Grocery and Gourmet Food · verified purchase
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