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Regulations to safeguard the cultivation and the Bergamot prodution quality.
Essential oil of bergamot (Citrus bergamia Risso et Poit), Calabrian type
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Regulations to safeguard the cultivation and the Bergamot prodution quality.
Regional law number 41 passet on14 october 2002.
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The essential oil of bergamot is extracted by peeling machines.
It is composed of a volatile part which is about 93-96% of the essential oil and of a non-volatile fraction which is about 4-7%.
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The physicochemical properties...... adopted internationally refer above all to the experiments of many, many years which have been carried out by the Experimental Station for the Industry of Citrus Essential Oils and By-products, in Reggio Calabria.
The principal physicochemical properties according to the ISO 3520-1980 rules for essential oils of Bergamot are shown in the chart
Bergamot growing and the producing and marketing of its essence, have been for the last sixty years, one of the few agricultural enterprises that have given a breath of international air to Calabria.
Apart from any cultural aspect there have been too, considerable benefits from the marketing of these essences to perfume manifacturers all over the world.
The best and vigorous bergamot trees grows only along the costal areas of Reggio Calabria and give the best fragrance for all the important parfume realizations.
The Ministry of Agricultural Policies (Official Gazette R.I. 30.04.1999) has now recognised the bergamot essence from Reggio Calabria as a product of Protected Denomination of Orign (D.O.P.).
The Calabrian Regional Board now realises the importance that this exporting has had, and can have in the future in the Regional Budget and, therefore its responsabilities both in the scientific and cultural fields towards and enterprise that has such an exclusive hold on world market.