How we're scammed into eating phony food

Re:How we're scammed into eating phony food by nitwit005 on Monday July 11, 2016 @03:53AM (#12069505)

It's generally suggested here in the US that you buy olive oil labeled as being from California, as the Italian labels are often adulterated or mislabeled. The periodic scandals out of Italy seem to support that view: http://www.eater.com/2016/6/30/12070668/olive-oil-fraud-ital...

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Re:How we're scammed into eating phony food by pcrh on Monday July 11, 2016 @06:14AM (#12070032)

Isn't that a problem with US regulations and enforcement, rather than EU ones?

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Re:How we're scammed into eating phony food by evgen on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:43AM (#12070610)

It is a problem with US regulators assuming that EU regulations are something more than scams to bid up the price of olive oils by claiming they came from a particular region (usually one that makes some bogus terrior claim) when in fact they do not. If the EU cannot enforce its own vaunted food regulations then I suppose the US should just stop accepting any claims regarding food provenance and dispense with any DOP compliance whatsoever...

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Re:How we're scammed into eating phony food by pcrh on Monday July 11, 2016 @10:08AM (#12071104)

Most likely the oil is shipped in large containers and bottled in the US. So the labeling will fall under US jurisdiction, not EU.

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