Icelandic food manufacturers lifted restrictions on palm oil due to a shortage of sunflower oil

KUALA LUMPUR: The sudden shortage of sunflower oil supply has forced food producers to lift restrictions on palm oil and return to this vegetable oil for their foodstuffs. Icelandic supermarkets in 2018 promised to extract palm oil from all of its own branded foods, making a comeback to this exciting crop. The supermarket has banned palm oil from its own brand of food in a bid to combat tropical deforestation. Iceland Managing Director Richard Walker reportedly expressed his remorse for having to break his pledge to extract palm oil from all his own branded goods. “The only alternative to using palm oil in its current state is to clean our refrigerators and shelves of various types of staple foods including potato products. “The move is a‘ last resort and a strict temporary measure ’and we will only use certified sustainable palm oil as an ingredient,” he said in a press report, the United Kingdom Daily Telegraph. "Iceland is finally aware of the fact that it cannot put food ...