The lack of sunflower oil can paralyze the Spanish industry in four weeks

A part of the Spanish agri-food industry will be paralyzed if in four weeks it does not find a substitute for sunflower oil, used to make a multitude of products, from pastries and preserves to sauces and fried foods, and whose reserves will not last more than a month .The war in Ukraine has stopped the activity in the refineries of that country, from which Spain receives 62% of the sunflower oil it uses, the ships do not circulate through the Bosphorus Strait and only the oil that was in stock remains .The shortage "is imminent", Rubén Moreno, general director of Produlce, an association that represents companies in the sweets, cookies and pastry sector and to which Bimbo, Gullón or Nestlé belong, told Efe, among many others. "We already have the 'stocks' to the limit and within a couple of weeks the earliest companies will have run out of sunflower oil and in a maximum period of four weeks all the companies," he added. In the same vein, representatives of the Spanish Association ...