date:May 28, 2015
quality to worst quality) extra virgin, virgin, ordinary, and lampante. An olive oil found to have any defects cannot be classified as extra virgin. At the other end of the spectrum, lampante is a classification that USDA, along with other standard-setting authorities, uses to indicate that the oil is not fit for human consumption.
NCL commissioned the Australian Oil Research Laboratory (AORL), a leading testing facility accredited by the IOC and the American Oil Chemists Society, to comprehens