“Naturally the honest people are getting terribly undercut,” he says. “There’s a huge unfair advantage in favor of the bad stuff. At the same time, consumers are being defrauded of the health and culinary benefits of great olive oil.”

To download PDF article (exerpt of the book) click here Stampa – Losing ‘Virginity’_ Olive Oil’s ‘Scandalous’ Fraud _ NPR

Link to the original article: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/12/143154180/losing-virginity-olive-oils-scandalous-industry?sc=fb&cc=fp

And the best article on the question, to date, by Nancy H. Jenkins, on the state of olive oil today, from a commercial point of view: http://nancyharmonjenkins.com/posts/eternal-question-reliable-olive-oil/

- GaB