Abuse against Women Workers in Oil Palm Plantations Is Never Condoned Official views from Malaysian Palm oil Council (MPOC)
The recent Associate Press report (November 19, 2020) has called attention to serious allegations of abuse against women employed or associated with the palm oil industry. As part of...
Viability of Synthetic Palm Oil versus Natural Palm Oil Dr. Mohd. Khairuddin Aman Razali & Dr. Kalyana Sundram
For several decades now, and ever since the early 1980s, palm oil has been called out as a problem for a number of different reasons. First it was its...
An Interim Economic Assessment of the COVID 19 risk – impact on world economy – OECD
The OECD released an Interim Economic Assessment of the Coronavirus risk and its impact on the world economy on 2nd March. Following is a summary of the report: The...
Palm oil holds promise for current and future food security
The progress of global food security hinges on the ability of the farming community to efficiently produce sufficient and nutritious food to satisfy local needs and meet growing global...
The palm oil miracle
Red palm oil’s intense colour is due to its carotene (pro-vitamin A) content; it has one of the highest carotene content in the plant kingdom. — MPOC By Datuk...
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...
Is breast milk dangerous for human consumption?
Expert puts Codex Alimentarius Commission’s food labeling paper about trans fats and saturated fats in proper perspective Is mother’s milk dangerous for babies? While it may seem absurd,...
Dangers of the ‘Low-fat’ Dogma
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), obesity worldwide has more than doubled since 1980. In 2014, over 1.9 billion adults (18 years and older) were overweight – 600...
Natural Immunity Boost
Vitamin E has long been known to be an antioxidant, capable of destroying potentially harmful free radicals in our body. There are 2 main types of vitamin E: tocopherols...