BULK OIL PACKAGES MUST CARRY PROPER LABELS – ECJ
September 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has declared illegal selling olive oils via 'bags in a box', where consumers choose oil quantities to be bagged. The court has ruled olive oil must be sold pre-packaged and labelled with information on bulk and sell-by dates. German retailer Weinhaus Kiderlen had claimed the regulation merely defined pre-packaged olive oil container rules, allowing other sales methods. But the court said: "To guarantee...authenticity" olive oils should be sold in non-re-sealable pre-packaged containers of up to five ...
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