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<pre>Guido, Ian, Mike and others

Your sentiments regarding quality assurance and food safety are spot
on. We are all aware of the misleading practices some processors
undertake whether it be unintentional or deliberate. There are
numerous people in the industry that are seeking to remedy this
situation and I invite members to look at www.noahaustralia.com.au
(This Site will be active by Friday 15th July) for information about
the National Olive Accredited Harvest (NOAH) Program.

One of the primary objectives of NOAH Australia will be to implement
and promote a program that will bring very importantly together food
safety and quality standards not just a quality seal (where quality
and Food Safety are 2 different entities)within Australia.
Retailers and Wholesalers will be able to accept NOAH certification
based on quality and food safety standards in order to be able to
make an assessment of their suppliers and their olive products to
ensure that production from olive grove to olive processor is
carried out in a safe manner and product quality can be
assured.Currently NOAH Australia has also the endorsment from an
Australian Insurance company ensuring that NOAH Australia Members
could have adequately covered Product Liability and Product Recall
cover for all finished Olive Products that will guarantee both
Quality and Safety of the finished product to Australian
Consumers.To ensure this all members will need to provide evidence
that a QA Program is implemented and that it can be verified and
validated.

A secondary, but equally important, objective will be to assure
Australian consumers that what olive product whether Oil,Table
Olives or other Olive Product they have purchased is truly of a high
quality and safe Australian Olive Product.



NOAH will raise capital that will be used in marketing Australian
olive oil as well as providing funds for R&D on a national scale.
The Board of NOAH will have an Australian representation and will be
launched 12 July 2005. Announcements regarding the Board's
composition will be made over the next few months. RIRDC
acknowledged the need to set high quality standards particularly
versus the benchmark of imported products (2000). NOAH Australia
will be the vehicle for this to be achieved.

The Full Quality Assured Logo can be viewed at the following 2 sites
at the moment - till the 15th July 2005

www.olivecare.com.au and

www.olivedirectory.com



Other salient points are that NOAH Australia is
Voluntary,Independent, Industry Based and, most importantly, Self
Funded at wholesale point .

I would encourage your registration of interest till next Friday
15th July through

www.olivedirectory.com

and post 15th July 2005 at

www.noahaustralia.com.au

Regards
Gino Russo
Senior QA Food Safety Consultant
OliveCare Australia







Ian Fraser wrote "Another thing worth thinking about, as the New
Zealanders
have already done, is introduce an Olive Mark (a form of
Certification for
EVOO), or regional 'Appellation' as they do with wines in Europe".

Guido wrote "By the way, they do have DOP or regions of appellation
for
olive oil in the major EC producer countries. In Spain, for
instance, the
more famous ones are Siurana and Les Garrigues, if I remember
correctly.
Mainly Arbequina areas".

Mike wrote "Many of the guilty ones are also members of the Olive
Association, surely it should be a condition of membership that they
comply
with the regulations".
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<pre>Gino:

Delighted to hear about the floating of NOAH and will log in to
www.noahaustralia.com. au with anticipation. (Pun intended!)

We've revisited supermarket shelves and again found some labelling
(or lack of it) unhelpful, both for OZ oils and imported, including
one OZ oil with neither manufacture nor use by dates recorded on the
bottle. Stockists need education too.

From a quality point of view, year of harvest is surely as important
as 'best by' or 'use by' date? Then consumers will know how old the
oil is and can take this into account in a buying decision. Will NOAH
have something to say on quality vis a vis use-by date? Some
producers offer long keeping times.

Cheers.
Ian Fraser & Jennifer Davidon
Lyric Olives
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<pre>Ian

Thank you for your email I enjoyed the Pun

I hope consumers dont wait 40 days to buy good oil

To help you with your question

NOAH will ensure that its Silver and Gold Members to comply with all
Food Safety and Quality Standards and requirements in Australia

This link will give a lot of people the answers they wish to find in
Food Labelling and its requirements in Australia - Just in case they
were not aware of the existence of such documentation

http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/_src...arking0917.pdf


Hopefully as time permits for me I will have a few more documents
available for viewing in the downloads and links section of my
website

www.olivecare.com.au

NOAH Membership Forms will be avaiable as from this weekend for
download from the NOAH Australia web site

One of the benefits for NOAH Members will be a 25% Discount on all
Food Safety & QA courses that I will run from now on, more info on
this can be found on my website.


If there is anything I can help with in regards to Food Safety & QA
please send me an email

grusso@...

Cheers
Gino Russo
Senior QA Food Safety Consultant
Olive Care Australia
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<pre>Good morning


I invite you to visit the new website www.noahaustralia.com.au.


As you are all aware, our industry has reached critical mass with
production of olive products at their highest level ever. As a
consequence of this, the need for Food Safety and Quality Assurance
issues need to be addressed urgently if Australia is to gain
recognition as suppliers of safe, quality products. Both
domestically and internationally.



NOAH Australia can be the vehicle for these issues to be addressed.
It can also be the vehicle to promote 100% Australian olive
products, especially in a world of increasing imported products into
Australia as well as providing funds for Research and Development.
Importantly, NOAH Australia raises funds at the point of sale when
monies are actually in hand.


The Australian Olive Industry is welcome to join as members:
There are 3 levels of Membership and benefits for each level.
You are more than welcome to join and the program is completly
voluntary, Members that will join will gain an edge on marketing and
an advantage to product and public liablity insurance as well as
many other benefits.

A United Australian Olive Industry support for NOAH would be
appreciated

Please consider!

If you wish to receive any more information feel free to contact me
on SKYPE - VOIP (FREE Communication Computer 2 Computer)

Contact details - noah_australia

Regards
Gino Russo
Senior QA Food Safety Consultant
OliveCare Australia
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<pre>Hi Gino,

It was good to catch up with you in Canberra. Could you please confirm a
date that you will be delivering an Olive Care Course in Adelaide so I can
start publicising it.

Cheers!

Lisa

Lisa Rowntree, President
Olives South Australia Inc.
PO Box 2920, Adelaide SA 5001
Ph: (08) 8573 6545 Fax: (08) 8573 6595
Direct Email: :longridge@...
*www.olivessouthaustralia.com.au

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, 19 July 2005 9:44 am
To: OliveOil@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [OliveOil] NOAH Australia - Covering Quality & Food Safety
Standards in Australia

Good morning


I invite you to visit the new website www.noahaustralia.com.au.


As you are all aware, our industry has reached critical mass with
production of olive products at their highest level ever. As a
consequence of this, the need for Food Safety and Quality Assurance
issues need to be addressed urgently if Australia is to gain
recognition as suppliers of safe, quality products. Both
domestically and internationally.



NOAH Australia can be the vehicle for these issues to be addressed.
It can also be the vehicle to promote 100% Australian olive
products, especially in a world of increasing imported products into
Australia as well as providing funds for Research and Development.
Importantly, NOAH Australia raises funds at the point of sale when
monies are actually in hand.


The Australian Olive Industry is welcome to join as members:
There are 3 levels of Membership and benefits for each level.
You are more than welcome to join and the program is completly
voluntary, Members that will join will gain an edge on marketing and
an advantage to product and public liablity insurance as well as
many other benefits.

A United Australian Olive Industry support for NOAH would be
appreciated

Please consider!

If you wish to receive any more information feel free to contact me
on SKYPE - VOIP (FREE Communication Computer 2 Computer)

Contact details - noah_australia

Regards
Gino Russo
Senior QA Food Safety Consultant
OliveCare Australia







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