When it comes to food fraud, olive oil is one of most commonly adulterated and misbranded foods. Products can easily be mixed with lower-quality oil, adulterated or deceptively labeled. The makers of Bertolli Olive Oil settled a lawsuit against them which claimed that their product was actually imported from Italy and was really “Extra Virgin”….
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Big Pharma suing to block importation of EPA (derived from fish oil)
In a novel approach by “Big Pharma”, drug company Amarin filed a lawsuit with the U.S. International Trade Commission to block the importation of products that contain a concentrated version of EPA, the component most commonly found in fish oil which may alleviate joint inflammation and reduce tryglycerides. This lawsuit does not ban natural fish…