In conjunction with the International Olive Oil Council - a United Nations organisation headquartered in Madrid - the Association conducts a Monitoring Program in which olive oils sold in Australia are periodically sampled and sent to accredited laboratories for analysis. Action is taken when results show that an oil is not true to label.

The Monitoring Agreement which follows includes the following information :

ATTACHMENTS

ATTACHMENT I : Designations and definitions of olive oils and olive-pomace oils

ATTACHMENT II: Olive oil labelling guidelines

ATTACHMENT III: Physico-chemical characteristics of the oil and related methods of analysis

ATTACHMENT IV: Olive oil sampling procedures for quality control programme

ATTACHMENT V: List of recognised chemical testing laboratories selected by the IOOC

ATTACHMENTS VI : List of recognised tasting panels selected by the International Olive Council

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