Quality of table olives.

The paper comments the different regulations related to table olives at nat ional or international scales. The Unified Qualitative Standard Applying to Table Olives in International Trade and COI/Codex (International Olive Oil Council, IOC, and IOC/Codex Alimentarius), <<Reglamentacion Tecnico Sanita ria para la elaboracion, circulacion y venta de aceitunas de mesal, (Spanis h), <<Normas de calidad para la exportacion de aceitunas de mesal, (Spanish ), and the United States Standards for Grades of Green and Canned Ripe Oliv es (USA) are especially considered. The effects of the new regulations on N utritional Labelling (mainly in USA), applications of the Analysis and Cont rol of Critical Points (ACCP), and the problems derived from the applicatio n of the ISO 9000, or EN 29000, to this Sector are also discussed.