[JRandomFreeper]

If you need the FedGov to explain olive oil to you, you might be a pro-government statist.

/johnny

[Artemis Webb]

If you can tell first cold press from oil diluted with cottonseed oil by looking you’re God.

[patton]

In all of history, Olive oil is the most adulterated product next to wine.

Thousands of years, people have been mixing in other stuff and labeling it what it is not.

[Ouderkirk]

This is a legitimate function of the government. Like the bureau of weights and measures. A gallon is 128 fluid ounces. 87 octane has a specific meaning, and extra virgin olive oil means a defined set of criteria equivalent to 87 octane means. SAE 10/30 motor oil meets a certain standard. Gold is the same thing here too.

Want some salt to go with your foot? It might taste better when you put it in your mouth like that.

[Rockingham]

This needed because much of what is marketed as “extra virgin olive oil” is badly diluted or adulterated.