date:Oct 31, 2012
Food manufacturers, government and supermarkets have today stated their ambition to ensure palm oil used in food production is responsibly produced and does not contribute to deforestation by 2015. But a leading retail organisation has insisted the pledge is too weak.
The announcement, in the form of the governments national statement on palm oil, comes as the International Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil annual conference is taking place in Singapore.
Palm oil and palm kernel oil are used