RSPO - Palm Oil COOP A few years ago, had tried and had declared war on oil palm accused on two fronts:
1. Harmful to health due to the high saturated fat content
2. Because of advancing deforestation of Indonesia to make way for palm oil plantations.
After a few years back here address the issue of palm oil in food always for the same reasons. Now the alarm is launched by the supermarket chains, particularly the Swiss, French and English and it seems determined to go all the way to the issue.
About the problems on human health is the only solution is to eliminate palm oil from the list of ingredients (which is very difficult for some foods), but on the ecological problem in Indonesia is the only solution seems to be to sourcing sustainable palm oil (RSPO).
RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) has defined the criteria that identify four models of provision for the promotion of sustainable palm oil product according to criteria (RSPO palm):
1. Identity Preserved or full guarantee of sustainable product with full traceability from plant to finished product, 2. Segregation or guarantee for product development,
3. MASS BALANCE or partial guarantee of sustainable product, mixed with a certain percentage of products not sustainable
4. BOOK & CLAIM as a mechanism of sponsorship, through which each link in the supply prior to the final consumer of the finished product, you can buy and resell the certificates representing the crude product RSPO, which has no constraint on the use of that product!! order to use the certificates you need some requirements, eg. to join the association Greenpalm ( http://www.greenpalm.org/ ).
The certificates represent about one tonne (940Kg) of crude palm RSPO, and / or refined and / or its fractions. The cost is currently about 15usd/ton
is obvious that for the first three strategies, the costs are necessarily higher than those identified in the "BOOK & claim" (paragraph 4). In fact, the purchases must be programmed for time and for quantities in excess of that necessary, since there (as opposed to point 4) the ability to certify the exact amount of palm oil used
Before we close the topic must be stated, however, that 80% of global palm oil comes from Indonesia and then we can certify that the palm is only 20% of the total and then we wonder just how much sustainable palm oil to meet global demand?
By John Buffatti
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