Green standard: Children playing with fresh fruit bunches at an oil palm plantation in Sarawak. The MSPO can issue sustainable palm oil certification to local growers.
MALAYSIA is expected to launch its national sustainable palm oil certification standard next month.
The long awaited Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) will be the third such certification standard in the world for palm oil, after the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) launched in 2011, and the international multi-stakeholder grouping, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) set up in 2004.
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