A scientific symposium on improving the quality of Libyan olive oil was launched today in the city of Tarhuna with the support of the Libyan Export Promotion Centre (LEPC) and the organisation of the Farm Oil Company for the Production of Olive Oil in the presence of the Mayor of Tarhuna, Mohamed Al-Kasher, and several interested parties and olive tree farmers.
The symposium, the LEPC reported. will be presented by Dr. Mariam Gharsalaoui and Eng. Radwan Matlaya from Tunisia. The themes of the symposium will be:
- Quality and purity standards for olive oil.
- Factors affecting the quality of olive oil.
- Sound practices for the production of high quality oils.
- Sensory analyses (taste applied classes).
- Production of olive oil and rationalisation of extraction.
- Storage techniques.
- Filtration: advantages and disadvantages.
- Canning techniques.
The LEPC said its support of the event comes because of the great interest it pays to the olive oil file because it is considered one of the most important natural resources that have a high competitive quality to access global markets.
It will be recalled that Libyan olive oils have won several international prizes for their quality, including in Miami, Athens, Geneva, Tokyo, Oslo, and Berlin. One Libyan brand, Libico olive oil, is already exporting some quantities to Italy. However, Libya has been unable to leverage this to export large quantities of its olive oil production.
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