Anti refill bottles in restaurants

The battle for guaranteeing the safety and to avoid the adulteration of food oil on restaurant tables now at last finds support in the “banning” of the so-called cruets. Indeed the Italian Chamber of Deputies last June 11th approved an amendment to EC law that had in fact up to now vetoed the labeling and the obligation for restaurants and public businesses to use bottles with anti refill tops.

Welcomed on many sides, the amendment finally makes the “Save Italian Food Oil” law, suspended for many months while awaiting a clarification on supposed contradictions with community rulings raised by the EU, applicable in all its parts. The amendment also includes the obligation of inserting the term “mixture” on the label for products obtained with virgin and extra-virgin olive oil from different countries: an enactment that offers the opportunity of serenely producing mixed oil, without all the same lying to consumers.The rulings approved are important in protecting Italian products and, in particular, in protecting a product as important as Italian food oil, evermore often subject to counterfeiting and in need of safeguarding.