The health benefits of olive oil have long been researched and these benefits are the greatest when they come from authentic extra virgin olive oil. Extra virgin olive oil is the natural oil from quality olives that have been picked straight off the tree and mechanically extracted as soon as possible without the use of chemicals or excessive heat. In other words, it is ‘the oil as it comes from the olive’.

The Australian olive industry has developed a Code of Practice to provide consumers with confidence that signatories to this Code have undergone rigorous procedures to certify that their products meet the highest industry standards. The following companies have become signatories to this Code of Practice: