OLIVE-POMACE OIL
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLSTATE aid of Euro 30 million has been authorised for the Spanish olive-pomace oil industry, as compensation for expensive manufacturing improvements it has been forced to make in the wake of a 2001 scandal about polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination. The European Commission has approved the payments, which have been helping the sector recover from a ban in Span and importing countries (including Britain) on the product following the discovery of certain PAH compounds such as the carcinogen benzopirene, a widespread environmental ...
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