Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok says they would voice out objections over the way EU's proposed regulation has singled out palm oil.
JAKARTA: The Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries , a palm oil board led by Indonesia and Malaysia, plans to send a ministerial mission to the European Union to challenge its proposed directive restricting the use of the edible oil.
Indonesia’s Economic Affairs Minister Darmin Nasution and a representative from Colombia would join the delegation to express their concerns over the EU’s renewable energy directive — known as RED II — aimed at curbing the use of crops blamed for deforestation, Kok said. The report, published in WHO’s bulletin, had alleged, among other things, that the oil palm industry employed similar tactics as the tobacco and alcohol industry to influence research on the health benefits of palm oil products.
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