Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
Malaysia, as one of the leading producers and exporters of palm oil, palm kernel oil and its derivatives, is committed to providing the world with high quality palm oil products which conform to global food safety standards. Over the last five decades, Malaysia has played a vital role in the development of Codex standards under […]
The world’s economy has faced an unprecedented challenge, which is not encountered before by the novel coronavirus (SARS-nCoV-2) since December 2019. China had taken proactive measures to control the spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in its country, including lockdown of several cities in the Hubei Province on 23 January 2020, which were the […]
Animal models which include mice and rats are frequently used in the study of inflammatory, neurodegenerative, and neoplastic and vascular diseases (Denic, 2011). Small animal models of human diseases are currently needed and have become an important tool for biomedical research. Animal studies as models for human diseases provided important understandings into the aetiology of […]
Palm oil is extracted from the flesh of the fruit of the oil palm, Elaeis guineensis, which is a native of West Africa. In Malaysia, the high-yielding tenera variety of E. guineensis is the most commonly cultivated oil palm. Tenera is a cross between dura and pisifera. There are two types of oil produced from […]
Malaysia is the world’s second largest producer of palm oil. In 2019, a total of 19.86 million tonnes of crude palm oil (CPO) was produced from 98.28 million tonnes of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) processed by 452 palm oil mills, with an export earnings of RM63.73 billion from 5.90 million hectares of oil palm planted […]
Oil palm is the most important commodity crop in Malaysia while palm oil has become the most traded vegetable oil in the world. Exports of oil palm products in 2018 were recorded to be higher by 3.5% at 24.82 million tonnes compared to 23.97 million tonnes in 2017 (Kushairi et al., 2019). The industry has […]
Obesity is an emerging global epidemic issue. Globally, people with obesity have increased threefold in number in the past four decades. In 2013, the World Health Organisation (WHO) found that more than 1.9 billion of adults (aged 18 years and above) were overweight or obese. In the same report, more than 340 million children and […]
The demand for edible oil is expected to increase proportionally with the increase in global population. Hence, palm oil of premium quality could potentially be the choice of many. Being one of the key players in the palm oil industry, Malaysia is committed to ensuring the sustainability of the industry. Usually, palm oil and its […]
Polyurethanes (PU) are polymeric materials used in a wide variety of applications to create all kinds of consumer and industrial products that make our lives more comfortable. PU is a product that most people are not overly familiar with because it is generally ‘hidden’ behind covers or surfaces made of other materials.