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SUPERMARKETS are selling phony imported olive oil in their house-brand lines.
An investigation by The Weekly Times has revealed samples of Coles and Woolworths house brands of premium or "extra-virgin" olive oil failed to meet the Australian standard for extra virgin.
The testing for The Weekly Times has revealed:
THREE brands - Coles' brand Spanish import, Italian giant Lupi and Australia's biggest-selling brand made by Spanish company Moro - selling inferior oil falsely labelled as "extra virgin".
SAMPLES of all three of those brands were found to be "rancid" by the testing laboratory.
Woolworths' home brand, also imported from Spain, failed a chemical test and also did not display a batch number or best-before date as required by the Australian standard.
That standard for olive oil, signed off on in July, is voluntary and has not been enforced by either major supermarket, but it has been adopted by bargain king Aldi.
Read more about the extra virgin olive oil being sold at Coles and Woolworths at The Weekly Times. |
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