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<pre>Good morning (Australian time),

Having raised this question and made reference to the people who
introduced me to the problem I received 16 emails last night from a
learned friend. Every one of them was from various articles in papers
and magazines giving examples of botulism (toxin) poisoning from matter
preserved in olive oil.

Although there are no recorded case of death or illness from olive oil
without something preserved in it my learned friend makes the point that
if sediment is contained in the oil then the conditions are right for
the growth of organisms. If I understand it correctly the smallest
filter used in oil filtration is 5 microns. If that is correct then
the C botulism spore which is smaller than 5 microns will pass through
into the oil. We only need one example to ruin us.

There is probably nothing in the world which can be taken as 100%
safe/correct, or whatever but it behoves us to do the best we can at the
bulk storage end of our process by removing the water/sediment.

Yours,
Dan (the unlearned!)

-----Original Message-----
From: sodium_9 [mailto:sodium@...]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 7:24 PM
To: OliveOil@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [OliveOil] Any Sinolea presses in Australia?

Hi,

Does anyone (else)in OZ have a Sinolea press? We have had one for
over forty years and while it is slow, it produces extremely high
quality oils, with no polyphenol loss due to water solution.

We are buying a decanter in the next few seasons, but will be keeping
the Sinolea and using it to produce an ultra-premium grade, family-
reserve style oil, which I think I can sell for AUD$40-50 per 375ml
bottle.

We recently blue printed our machine, replacing all bearings
and "battinis", had a new stainless steel malaxer jacket built and
installed and powder coated the machine to bring it back to "better
than new" condition.

I am curious to learn whether anyone else in this huge country has a
similar machine.


best,
Nick Andrews




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