`53th Meeting of the IOC Advisory Committee Held in Cairo - Olive Oil Times
Enter keywords and hit Go →
enEnglish
enEnglishfrFrançaiselελληνικάdeDeutscheitItalianozh-CN中文ptPortuguêsesEspañoltrTürkçehrHrvatskija日本語hiहिंदी
enEnglish
enEnglishfrFrançaiselελληνικάdeDeutscheitItalianozh-CN中文ptPortuguêsesEspañoltrTürkçehrHrvatskija日本語hiहिंदी

53th Meeting of the IOC Advisory Committee Held in Cairo

By Ylenia Granitto
Apr. 30, 2019 09:00 UTC
Summary Summary

The 53rd meet­ing of the International Olive Council’s Advisory Committee was opened by the Egypt Agriculture Minister in Cairo, with dis­cus­sions on the olive oil sec­tor in Georgia and a project to remove plas­tics from the mar­ket. The com­mit­tee reaf­firmed the valid­ity of the panel test for assess­ing vir­gin olive oils and plans to sub­mit a joint pro­posal at the next ses­sion in November.

The Egypt Agriculture Minister and Chair of the International Olive Council, Ezz El Din Abu Steit, opened the 53th meet­ing of the IOC’s Advisory Committee in Cairo on April 24 in the pres­ence of sev­eral inter­na­tional observers. Georgian Vice Minister for Agriculture George Svanidze described the state of the olive oil sec­tor in his coun­try.

A project for remov­ing plas­tics from the olive oil mar­ket was launched by rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the University of Jaén. Scientific speeches were given by the Heads of Units of the IOC’s Executive Secretariat, then the atten­dees had news on the Observatory, the new world olive oil doc­u­men­ta­tion cen­ter.

The valid­ity of the panel test for the organolep­tic assess­ment of vir­gin olive oils was reaf­firmed by the Advisory Committee, which stressed the need for addi­tional time to strengthen it. A joint pro­posal is set to be sub­mit­ted at next November’s ses­sion.

More articles on:  , ,

Advertisement

Related Articles