KUALA LUMPUR – The “No Palm Oil” campaign labels on a range of food products in France and Belgium are discriminatory, unfair, and baseless, says Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Douglas Uggah Embas.
Speaking at the European Palm Oil Conference (EPOC) 2014 in Brussels, Belgium, Uggah said the government should end the labelling as it portrayed palm oil negatively.
“We face competitors who at time resort to numerous measures simply to defend their own local oilseed products. Therefore we appeal to the authorities to put a stop to this form of labelling,” he said in his keynote address at EPOC 2014, themed ‘Palm Oil: Nutritional and Sustainability Challenges,’ as published by Free Malaysia Today, on Wednesday (10/12/2014). (T4)
