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... the australian food and grocery council (afgc) has applauded the decision by the federal government to oppose the food standards amendment (truth in labelling palm oil) bill 2011 ... yesterday, afgc chief executive kate carnell said the palm oil labelling bill would cost the australian food manufacturing industry a$150 million and “would not save any orang-utans” ... secondly, that the bill contravenes world trade organization requirements for food labelling adversely impacting industrial trade ... 3 per cent of the world’s palm oil and the majority of australian manufacturers have already committed to using palm oil certified by the roundtable on sustainable palm oil (rspo) ... fifthly, the bill circumvents established national labelling practices and the blewett labelling review

... (2) palm-oil labelling inquiry in federal parliament the identification of palm oil on food labels is being considered in a federal parliamentary committee inquiry by the house of representatives ... the house economics committee has commenced its inquiry into the food standards amendment (truth in labelling – palm oil) bill 2011 that would, if passed, require makers or distributors of foods with palm oil as an ingredient, to specify the oil as ‘palm oil’

... palm oil bill unworkable and will cost industrya palm oil bill - which compromises the nation’s food and grocery labelling system - is unworkable in its current form and must be referred to a house of representatives committee for further discussion and examination, the australian food and grocery council (afgc) urged today ... the australian food and grocery council today called the recent palm oil labelling bill, passed in the senate with amendments last week, “unworkable”, and called for a house of representatives committee to further discuss and examine the bill ... the bill calls for the mandatory labelling of palm oil within 12 months on all food and grocery products, both on the grounds of truth in labelling and in an attempt to allow consumers to avoid the ingredient, which has been implicated in the destruction of orangutan habitat in malaysia and indonesia ... the afgc said the bill will “impose significant costs to industry, compromise good regulation and labelling and won’t help to save one orangutan ... ” afgc chief executive kate carnell said there are many reasons why the truth in labelling bill must be referred to a committee for further discussion ... “the bill only names palm oil as the required ingredient to be listed on a label ... most products use derivatives of palm oil or palm kernel oil - which are not listed in the bill,” she said ... “food labelling is a state and territory-based responsibility ... as a result, states and territories will have to pass legislation to require palm oil labelling ... “palm oil and its derivatives are unable to be verified by laboratory testing as the fatty acids and derivatives are not unique to palm oil ... as there are 60,000 products on supermarket shelves - with up to one third containing palm oil - this equates to hundreds of millions of dollars in extra costs ... ” “the bill undermines the current council of australian governments’ (coag) blewett labelling review process, which is still underway

... the senate has passed an amendment to the food act requiring that products containing palm oil be explicitly labelled, rather than described as ‘vegetable oil’ ... most of the world’s supply of palm oil, an extremely common ingredient in foods and food additives, is produced in malaysia and indonesia, where it is common practice to clearfell forest for plantations ... senator xenophon also emphasised the consumer health aspect of the labelling, saying that australians consume 10kg of palm oil a year without knowing it, and that while other products labelled as ‘vegetable oil’ contain as little as 2% saturated fat, palm oil is 50% saturated fat ... dompok said the bill seeks to encourage “the use of certified sustainable palm oil in order to promote the protection of wildlife habitat” ... “in this context, malaysia is of the view that labeling palm oil purely from the perspective of sustainable production is discriminatory,” he told bernama, the malaysian national news agency ... “it is with great regret and disappointment that the australian senate has not accorded the due attention contributed by the oil palm industry in malaysia and the sustainable practices adopted