Olive oil too attractive or when the scam goes easy

The Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Prevention (DGCCRF) took an interest in the olive oil trade in 2021.

More than 200 professionals in the sector have been checked, reports

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The DGCCRF was interested in factories, distributors, websites, wholesalers and small village markets.

In total, 223 professionals were checked and more than a third were caught because of one or more breaches.

In fact, 40% of the products tested had at least one anomaly.

Distrust with too good deals

Among the anomalies, the most frequent is false or misleading labelling.

Many professionals mislead consumers, like this distributor who mentioned “made in France” on its labels even though the olive oil was of Portuguese origin.

Product quality is the second most common anomaly.

Basic olive oil is often sold as extra-virgin olive oil.

If it is almost impossible to uncover this lie, the spokesperson for the DGCCRF advises to be wary of too good deals and too attractive prices.

In the end, 90 of the 223 establishments checked were pinned down.

The majority received a simple warning to comply with the standards, but some were fined up to 8,000 euros.

Three reports were also drawn up, for which the legal proceedings are still in progress.

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