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Malaysia's total palm oil stocks surge 24.54% to 3.51mil tonnes in Sept
CPO Futures Close Lower On Weaker Soybean Oil Prices
Palm oil falls to 11-week low on weak exports, rising output
CPO Futures End Lower In Line With Weak Regional Vegetable Oil Markets
MMTC to Import 18,500 Tons of Palm Oil Amid Shortage
23/09/2008 (Bloomberg) - MMTC Ltd., India's biggest state- owned trading company, called for bids to import 18,500 metric tons of palm oil to ease a shortage and curb prices.
\'Sabah oil palm growers subsidising others\'
21/09/2008 (Daily Express), Kota Kinabalu - Former Chief Minister Datuk Harris Salleh has proposed the abolition of the Federal Government and Malaysia Palm Oil Board (MPOB) taxes on the oil palm industry in Sabah.
Health department committee to keep an eye on ghee manufactured from contaminated palm oil
20/09/2008 (Daily Times), Karachi - No one can be allowed to put the people’s health at risk by distributing hazardous raw or refined food, especially edible oil and ghee. Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed has said that it is his department’s duty to look after the people’s interests and take strict measures to ensure that consumers are offered food of the best quality.
‘Team reconstituted to ascertain fitness of sealed palm oil’
20/09/2008 (The News International) - The Sindh Health Department would hold proper identification of the “confiscated consignment of palm oil†with the help of four laboratories to ascertain if it was fit for human consumption, said Minister for Health, Dr Sagheer Ahmed on Friday.
Re-investigation of Palm oil issue
19/09/2008 (The Nation), Karachi - Provincial Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed has said the health department was going to carry out afresh investigation into the 9-year old issue of the seized contaminated RBD palm oil following the directives of the apex court.
States get subsidised edible oil
20/09/2008 (The Financial Express) - In the wake of a decline in international crude edible oil prices, the government has distributed only about 1 lakh tonne of imported edible oil against a target of 1 million tonne to states to be sold at subsidised rates to poor families.
2 Containers loaded with palm oil caught
19/09/2008 (Awoko) - Two containers loaded with palm oil in jerry cans were yesterday opened by the Ross Road Police after it was caught at the entering point of the Ports Authority.
EU faces pressure from overseas biofuel-makers
19/09/2008 (EuActiv.com) - A decision by a key European Parliament committee last week to beef up sustainability criteria for agrofuels and tilt the Union's biofuel policy towards non food-based biofuels due to concerns over rising commodity prices has irritated top biofuel-exporting nations Indonesia, Malaysia and Brazil.
New certificates to prove palm oil sustainability
19/09/2008 (Business Green) - A programme to allow large palm oil users to prove that they are supporting sustainable production methods has gone into operation this week.
