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Some olive farm­ers use chem­i­cal pes­ti­cides and many use nat­ural means to pro­tect their crops from the olive fruit fly and other pests. Organic oils are made with­out the use of chem­i­cal pes­ti­cides and more pro­duc­ers are con­vert­ing to organic farm­ing these days. It’s nice to find an organic oil, but there are out­stand­ing pro­duc­ers that fol­low sound envi­ron­men­tal prac­tices but just haven’t yet been cer­ti­fied organic.

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