Malaysia's biggest supermarket chain Mydin has removed products labeled pal...
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s biggest supermarket chain Mydin has removed products labeled palm-oil-free from its stores, its top executive said on Thursday, as part of a campaign by the world’s second-largest producer of the oil to protect the commodity’s image at home and abroad.
The $60 billion world palm oil trade has been the target of environmentalists because of the vast areas of tropical rainforest they say have been cleared to grow the commodity. The European Union this year passed an act to phase out palm oil from renewable fuel by 2030 due to the deforestation concerns.
Ameer Ali Mydin, managing director of Mydin Mohamed Holdings Bhd [MYMHB.UL], said his stores removed all anti-palm products on Wednesday to convey the importance of palm oil to the Malaysian economy, Southeast Asia’s third biggest. “By labeling something that there is no palm oil, you’re actually telling people that palm oil is bad for you.”Teresa Kok, Malaysia’s minister of primary industries, welcomed Mydin’s move and told reporters she hoped other supermarkets and shops in the country would follow suit. In July, the Malaysian government promised action against an international school for spreading “anti-palm oil propaganda”.
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