EU FOOD LABELLING REGULATION PROMPTS CONCERN IN PALM OIL SECTOR
November 3rd, 2013
Battle lines have been drawn across the international palm oil industry as its companies prepare to comply with the incoming European Union (EU) food information regulation No 1169/2011, which comes into force from December 13, 2014, and requires product labels to list types of vegetable oil used in food.The regulation states that such products “may be grouped together in the list of ingredients under the designation ‘vegetable oils’…followed immediately by a list of indications of specific vegetable origin…” Also, the presence of ‘fully ...
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