In late July, the Marche Regional Council approved the 2017-2019 Public Education Plan. The plan included a recommendation, promoted by the Italian populist party Movimento 5 Stelle, that aims at banning palm oil from public schools and replacing it with other ingredients. FFC promptly reacted to the proposal and provided Regional Councilors with scientific evidences […]
Why single out palm oil? It has a lot to do with creating trade barriers and protecting the fragile agriculture industry in Europe that is artificially kept alive on subsidies from the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy. Indeed, the EFSA has been quick to pull the trigger. Just recently I read SciDevNet’s article titled “Palm oil […]
Two weeks ago we invited the Environment Minister Gianluca Galletti to endorse the Amsterdam Declaration – read our letter. On early Tuesday, his signature was put on paper. We welcome Environment Minister Gianluca Galletti decision to sign the Amsterdam Declaration. The decision of the Italian Government to join The Netherlands, France, Germany, Great Britain, Norway and […]
A comparative research on nutritional profile indicated on the packaging of 25 food products in Italy. Palm oil is the victim of a smear campaign for clearly commercial reasons. Many food companies have removed it from their products in order to reduce saturated fats. The absence of palm oil has been clearly highlighted on packaging […]
We call Minister Galletti to sign the Amsterdam Declaration on sustainable palm oil production. Asking to eliminate palm oil production in order to save forests is misguided. If that were to be done, palm trees would be replaced with other, much less sustainable crops and therefore more harm would be done to forests. Sustainable palm oil […]
According to a study recently published by the Italian Society of Preventive and Social Pediatrics, signed by Dott. Vito Leonardo Miniello and Dott.ssa Lucia Diaferio, it is not advisable to favor food products that report on the labels the claim “free from palm oil” because it is misleading , since the consumer could be led […]
The new study published by the British Journal Sports Medicine, signed by doctors Aseem Malhotra, Rita Redberg and Pascal Meier, disputes the belief that heart disease is caused by the consumption of saturated fats: Click here to download the study.
JRC scientists of the European Commission, in collaboration with the European Union Referece Laboratory (EURL), have observed analytical methods that monitor the formation of contaminants in food. They have found that based on the composition of the food, the formation of artifacts can also occur during sample preparation, leading to misleading results: See Full Study HERE!
Based on the FAO’s Global Forest Resource Assessment 2015, it was estimated that the contribution of palm oil to global tropical deforestation is around 5%. Just 11% of forest fires in 2016 in Indonesia occurred on the territorial concessions for the cultivation of palm oil. The figures show that deforestation and forest fires must be […]
According to the NFI study, the effects on health, relative to the consumption of palm oil, are similar to the consumption of other oils rich in saturated fats. There is no scientific evidence that establish with absolute certainty the consequentiality between consumption of palm oil and the onset of cardiovascular diseases. In addition, the study […]