The Great Extra Virgin Olive Oil Hoax

 

'Scientists at UC Davis went shopping at local supermarkets and brought back 14 of the country’s most popular imported brands to their labs for analysis. Incredibly, they found that 69% of the imported extra virgin olive oils they tested were fake, adulterated, stale, or so subpar that they failed to meet international and USDA standards for being labeled “extra virgin.” For years, articles in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New Yorker magazine, and other publications have repeatedly warned about adulterated olive oils being shipped to America. A National Public Radio report called olive oil fraud “rampant.” '

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