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<pre>Dear Amer,

I'm surprised to see you post on this list. If you remember I called you a
couple times about your refined olive oil inquiry.

The best temperature to store the olive oil is anywhere less than 23-25 degrees
celcius. Cold weather only freezes the olive oil especially the ones with low
acidity but it does not change any of its specifications. It will be back to
normal once it sees room temperature. On the other hand heat more than 25
degrees will increase the peroxide value and other values of the olive oil.

There are 3 things that olive oil hates air, heat and sunlight.

For filtering there are a couple things you can do depending on your capacity.
Here in Turkey most of the small producers and sellers use a device that they
make themselves which only uses cotton inside it to filter. It is an excellent
way to filter the olive oil which gives the olive oil clear, shiny look but it
is very small for mass production and a lot of olive oil is lost during the
process.

What we use is an Italian filter from Velo with which we can reach maximum 3.5
tons an hour of filtering. Then we use a vertical screen filter again from Velo
that gives the olive oil the shining look like the cotton filters. You can find
Velo at www.velo.it. But be careful once you buy from them they don't pay
attention to you at all.

There is another Italian company called Padovan and here is the info for them
Tmci Padovan Spa Via Dal Vera, 13 31015 Conegliano (TV) - Italy Phone: +39 0438
41.47 Fax: +39 0438 23.682 E-mail: info@... . This is a very good
company also.

I hope this helps.

Serhan Akdari
Edremit, Turkey

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