Featuring the oil of Moutere Grove

Our press house, storage and bottling room is a Certified Food Premises and inspected by the local District Council to this level.

We have Organic Certification by Agriquality for our olive oils since 2002, with the previous years being transitional organic. The Agriquality seal is on our bottle to show this (gold foil on the back label). The Agriquality organic standard is IFOAM certified, and we get a certificate of equivalence for all our exports to the USDA organic standard, and also to EU certification standards from FSANZ, which is the Food Safety Authority. There is government-to-government agreement that allows us to use the USDA organic claim and seal.

Organic industry in New Zealand:

The organic industry in NZ is small, but developing fast. There are 2 major certifying agencies, Bio-Gro and Agriquality, although now Agriquality is auditing Bio-Gro’s auditors! There is also a bio-dynamic standard called Demeter. The export value of organic produce is now doubling every 2-3 years, much of it in the traditional areas of meat and dairy products. The local market place is really not adequately regulated, as you do not need certification to make organic claims. However, the wise are now increasingly aware of the need for certification of organic products they wish to buy.