"mm" wrote:
Nope. Most olive oils are from other countries but labelled "product
of Italy".

Incorrect. There are two general phrases in the USA used for the origins of
olive oil. One phrase is "Imported from Italy". This just means the olive
oil was shipped from Italy, but the olives could have come from anywhere.
The other phrase is "Product of Italy", which means the olives themselves
were grown in Italy. There are a couple of variants of these two phrases.

I've got two bottles of Safeway Select olive oil in front of me. The first
bottle is "extra virgin olive oil". It is labeled "Produced and Packed in
Italy". It further says "extracted from ripe Italian olives". The second
bottle is "olive oil". By contrast, it is labeled "Imported from Italy" and
has no further indication of origins. There are numerous explanations of the
two phrases on the net if you do a google search.

One interesting thing about Safeway olive oil is when sold at the regular
price, the extra virgin costs more than the plain. But when they put it on
sale, both go for the same price.

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