11th Olive Oil and Table Olive Congress

Dear Colleagues,As the 11th Olive Oil and Table Olive Congress came to the end, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to all participants, speakers, and contributors who made this event a great success.This year, from April 25 to April 26, 2026, the 11th Olive Oil and Table Olive Festival and Congress took place in Heraclion, Crete Greece in an International place for fairs and congress in GOUVES, with a significant number of internatioanl participants (fromTürkiye, Tunisia, Lebanon, Libya, Brasil and USA).This year’s congress brought together a wide range of scientific, technical, and applied perspectives covering the entire olive oil and table olive value chain. The programincluded important contributions on cultivation practices, processing technologies, phenolic compounds and their evolution, analytical methods and measurement reliability, sensory evaluation, authenticity and traceability, as well as the role of olive oil in human health and sustainable food systems.At the congress, participants particularly emphasized in their speeches the importance of creating a bridge between scientific research and applications for the benefit of society.They emphasized the importance of associating knowledge such as chemical composition, quality criteria, residue analysis, phytochemical components and health effects with sensory perception, consumer understanding and market demands in olive and olive oil research, as in all other fields, and adding added value to olives fromfield to table. While doing this, preserving product excellence and the details of tradition, the importance of quality control, modern technological applications, storage conditions and export requirements were discussed in detail both in scientific presentations and festival events throughout the congress and festival.One of the key outcomes of the congress was a consensus on the importance of authenticity, geographical origin, and transparency as fundamental elements in protecting both consumers and producers in an increasingly complex global market. The importance of branding, particularly in terms of variety and taste diversity, was emphasized once again.The abstracts submitted to the 11th Congress underwent peer review by ACG Publications, and authors were asked to make necessary corrections with scientific rigor. Each abstract is published with its original DOI number in the 11th Olive Oil and Table Olive special issue of Records of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. These abstracts will be indexed in the Web of Science Research Commons database, and authors who wish to do so can also submit the full text of their work to Records of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.Our collaboration with ACG Publications, which began with this special issue publishing the abstracts of the 10th Olive Oil and Table Olive Congress, has paved the way for the dissemination of our high-quality local work to the global scientific community. Our aim is to continue growing and progressing. One of our goals is to position our organization as a central hub in global olive research, particularly focusing on Aegean olives, in the fields of global olive production, industry, and application, with a greaternumber of international participants. We will achieve this goal together with you, our valued congress and festival participants, and the readers of the Records of Agricultural and Food Chemistry journal.We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the management of E.O.S.P EURO EXPO, Aristoteles University, International Hellenic University, Gebze Technical University and ACG PUBLICATIONS, the journal editors and editorial board members, the reviewers who evaluated the papers, and the congress and festival secretariat for creating a sustainable platform for the participation of people from many fields such as agriculturalists, food engineers, chemists, biologists, pharmacists, and medical professionals from around the world.While thanking all stakeholders once again for their participation and contributions, we would like to express our eagerness to continue walking this path together in the coming years.