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The European Commission’s revised Renewable Energy Directive proposal

Sometimes, legislative proposals serve as poor policy because they fail to consider the practical realities of the industries affected and they may be discriminatory and inconsistent with international legal...

Norway Mulls Palm Oil Ban

Contradiction in terms The speed at which news moves around the world today has opened the floodgates to a flurry of questionable news that deliberately misleads and misinforms. ‘Fake...

The oil palm tree and the Malaysian 50 Ringgit bank note

In an interesting study by UCLA professor Alan Castle and his colleagues, only one person out of more than 100 students could accurately draw the Apple logo from memory....

Retaining trust in the Malaysian palm oil brand

Last year, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) issued a report that warned of consequences for human health from contaminants created during the processing and refining of edible oils....

Actions speak louder than words: The conflicting intentions of many RSPO members

Over the past 13 years, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (hereinafter, RSPO) has grown to more than 3,100 members around the globe, representing stakeholders in seven sectors of...

A Force for Good : Malaysian palm oil has changed the world

2017 marks the first 100 years of the Malaysian palm oil industry. The initial commercial oil palm plantation was established at Tennamaram Estate in Batang Berjuntai, Selangor, in 1917....

Is Palm Oil A Cancer Risk? Let Truthful Science Prevail!

In addition to the Nutella / Palm oil cancer link streamed extensively in the media, there have been accompanying reference associated to a study in Nature (doi:10.1038/nature20791; G. Pascual...

Malaysian Palm Oil Industry: Our Stand On The Nutella Ferrero Report and Misinformation about Palm Oil and Cancer

The palm oil industry is regularly confronted by misinformation which is then absorbed by the media and churned into a frenzy of inaccurate news articles and opinion pieces, designed...

‘NUTELLA IS NOT CARCINOGENIC’

KUALA LUMPUR: Reports on the Internet alleging popular chocolate spread Nutella, which is made with palm oil, containing cancerous elements is a distortion of facts, Plantation Industries and Commodities...

Die Hard: Why Palm Oil Myths Persist

Any online search for a connection between palm oil and human health will bring up hundreds of websites claiming that palm oil is ‘bad for you’. The criticism does...

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