Genomics and Olive Oil: Past and Current Challenges of Olive Oil Adulteration

Abstract

<span style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: CapitoliumNews-Regular; color: #231f20; font-size: 9pt;">For many years, assessment of olive oil quality and its <span style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: CapitoliumNews-Regular; color: #231f20; font-size: 9pt;">authenticity confimation has been of great importance <span style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: CapitoliumNews-Regular; color: #231f20; font-size: 9pt;">to guarantee olive oil safety in compliance with legislations. These include the investigation of olive oil purity <span style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: CapitoliumNews-Regular; color: #231f20; font-size: 9pt;">and quality by analyzing several parameters such as fatty <span style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: CapitoliumNews-Regular; color: #231f20; font-size: 9pt;">acid composition, sterols, phenolic compounds, triacylglycerol and etc, through performing conventional and <span style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: CapitoliumNews-Regular; color: #231f20; font-size: 9pt;">advanced hyphenated techniques (1). This issue still has <span style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: CapitoliumNews-Regular; color: #231f20; font-size: 9pt;">key importance for research institutions, industries, <span style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: CapitoliumNews-Regular; color: #231f20; font-size: 9pt;">and export/import agencies although it bears numerous <span style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: CapitoliumNews-Regular; color: #231f20; font-size: 9pt;">complications; for example the composition of extra virgin olive oils is the result of complex interactions among <span style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: CapitoliumNews-Regular; color: #231f20; font-size: 9pt;">olive varieties, environmental conditions, fruit ripening, <span style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: CapitoliumNews-Regular; color: #231f20; font-size: 9pt;">and oil extraction technology (2) which cause flctuating <span style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: CapitoliumNews-Regular; color: #231f20; font-size: 9pt;">results for the oil from the same cultivar grown in diffrent locations. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br style="line-height: normal; widows: 2; text-transform: none; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span>