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A bad olive harvest in Europe could mean an increase in olive oil fraud, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) warns. The agency is launching a special project to crack down on this particular food fraud by sending agents to sample olive oil across the country and test it to ensure it isn't cut with cheaper oils, as an example. Aline Dimitri, the CFIA's deputy chief food safety officer, explained the project and some of the CFIA's new fraud-fighting tools when she appeared on CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning."Olive oil has been on our radar for many years. We in fact direct our inspectors to pay particular attention to olive oil when they are in a distribution centre or in an importer," she said. "The real problem is, what if it's cut with peanut oil, and someone is allergic to it and they do not know it is in there? |
