EU to ban olive oil jugs from restaurants

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The small glass jugs filled with green or gold coloured extra virgin olive oil are familiar and traditional for restaurant goers across Europe but they will be banned from 1 January 2014 after a decision taken in an obscure Brussels committee earlier this week.

From next year olive oil "presented at a restaurant table" must be in pre-packaged, factory bottles with a tamper-proof dispensing nozzle and labelling in line with EU industrial standards.

The use of classic, refillable glass jugs or glazed terracotta dipping bowls and the choice of a restaurateur to buy olive oil from a small artisan producer or family business will be outlawed.

Sam Clark, the food writer, chef and proprietor of the award winning Moro restaurant in London, told The Daily Telegraph that the ban would stop him serving his customers specially selected Spanish olive oil in dipping bowls with bread when they are seated at their table.

"This will affect us. It is about choice and freedom of choice. We buy our oil, which we have selected from a farm in Spain, to serve our customers," he said "Yet more packaging is not going to be eco-friendly and will limit choice to more mass produced products."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...o-ban-olive-oil-jugs-from-restaurants.html?fb

I quite like Olive Oil with my bread :(
 
Good to see the EU spending money wisely on important issues such as this.


...........................*cries*
 
This won't stop me from going to McDonalds :)


Non story really, it's to stop punters being given cheap olive oil. However I don't think many have particular aspirations to what olive oil they are dunking their bread into, it's like a breadstick, I don't care if they are not from the finest breadstick baker in all of Italy, but are Aldi's finest.

Do what the rest of Europe does and ignore the petty diktats that appear from these sub committees.
 
This is exactly the same thing that happened to village wine in Cyprus, totally blew culture out the door :( and forced prices up. A sad, sad day.
 
the careometer on this is completely struggling to register, its only the fake outrage that made this worth the read.

if u go to a greasy spoon and see bottles of Heinz ketchup refilled with cheap red catering slop are you happy about it or would you prefer the little sachets?

non issue - artisan olive oil... roflmao.. perlleeez.. its about scamming as usual
 
As a chef of 24 years. I find this such a stupid idea. Really!, these morons need to find something a little bit more important to address instead of Olive Oil Jugs.

Give me strength.

The world is not a good place these days.
 
I don't understand the outrage, it seems reasonable to make it so people consuming a product know exactly what they are consuming.

While in the UK we are mostly culinary dense on the subject of olive oil, much of Europe takes it more seriously.

OK, it's not a pressing issue - but is this part of a wider project to ensure "person A" knows what they are eating? (as that 'seems' pretty reasonable).
 
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