No more ‘crude’ palm oil


PETALING JAYA: There are plans to do away with the term “crude” to describe palm oil and the prized commodity will instead be promoted as a Malaysian premier brand, said Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong.

The Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister said the word was not an apt description of the nation’s largest net export commodity.

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