KUALA LUMPUR, June 22 — Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin today expressed her ministry’s commitment to fight Western anti-palm oil sentiments, saying that Malaysia cannot just sit idly by.
“As palm oil and its related products have been a major revenue contributor to the country’s economy as well as having played a significant role in reducing rural poverty and improving infrastructure, Malaysia has resorted to counter such malicious/baseless claims via a ‘soft consultancy' approach,” she said.
“The current practice of ‘no palm oil ’or ‘palm oil-free labelling' in France and Belgium can be traced back to 2008 when the French retail chain Carrefour started to substitute palm oil in potato chips with sunflower oil.
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