Material safety data sheets for palm oil products: some information and suggestions
TANG Thin SueMaterial safety data sheets (MSDS) are documents designed to provide both users and workers with the proper procedures for handling or working with those materials. Generally, it has been presumed that these documents are only relevant to substances that are considered rather dangerous. However, there were recently some requests for MSDS of palm oil and palm kernel oil, which are generally considered as ‘harmless’ food commodities under normal circumstances. This paper attempts to provide some basic information about MSDS, their history, their contents and some examples of existing MSDS and suggestions for data that could be used as references for inclusion in MSDS of palm oil products by their producers.
Tags: MSDS (MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS), MPOB PUBLICATIONS, PALM OIL PRODUCTS
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