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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...

Malaysian Palm Oil Council Applauds French Government for Withdrawing Palm Oil Tax

Kuala Lumpur (23 June 2016) – The Malaysian Palm Oil Council congratulates the French National Assembly MPs who rejected the palm oil tax during their plenary session yesterday, confirming...

Malaysian Ambassador Samples Palm Oil Food Truck in Paris

Malaysian Ambassador to Paris, H.E. Dato’ Ibrahim Abdullah, joined French chef David Martin in Paris last week, at the famous Foire de Paris exhibition, where the chef is preparing...

Croatia – Attractive Market for Palm Oil

The Republic of Croatia enjoys international fame for its long Adriatic coastline dotted with hundreds of beautiful islands. They are the basis for the country being one of the...

Talking Points from MPOC’s New Information Campaign

On Sept 7, the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) initiated a mark of provenance and an information campaign in France and Belgium. At the launch in Paris, prominent personalities...

Tide Turns against Illegal Label in Belgium

In Belgium, two isolated companies continue to label their products with the discriminatory and illegal claim ‘No Palm Oil’, which is at once superfluous and derogatory. But supermarket retailer...

Palm Oil; Basiron (COPD): Segolene Royal Minister is Wrong

(AGENPARL) – Milan, June 19 – The Council for the Malaysian Palm Oil (COPD) responds to the false accusations against the palm oil made by the French Environment Minister...

Malaysian Palm Oil Council: French Minister Segolene Royale Is Wrong

Kuala Lumpur – The Malaysian Palm Oil Council responds to the false accusations against palm oil leveled by French Environment Minister, Segolene Royale. The CEO of MPOC, Dr Yusof...

Is your lunch consuming too much land? How palm oil stacks up

Your sandwich may be harming the environment. A 2015 Dietary Guidelines’ scientific report states that the average American diet has a larger environmental impact in terms of greenhouse gas emissions,...

Plain speaking about palm oil

I recall some years ago that MPOC was tasked with preventing the Truth in Labelling – Palm Oil Bill from being passed by the Australian Senate. Senator Nick Xenophon had introduced...