Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
Oil palm is an important crop to Malaysia because of its huge hectarage (3.3 million hectares) and because of its significant contribution to the foreign exchange earning to the country. However, localized losses attributable to a number of pests can be substantial if high pest populations or outbreaks occur persistently. Intensive integrated pest management (IPM) […]
In today’s market economy, especially with the advancement of information technology (IT) and information and communication technology (ICT), new developments in technology are transmitted fast. However, the technology is normally adopted when the benefits exceed costs. In demonstrating that such advances are for the benefit of sustaining the oil palm industry, new knowledge is constantly […]
Conventionally the analytical techniques used to analyse the quality parameters of oils and fats are by wet chemical methods that involve titration. Normally these chemical techniques require large amount of chemicals and reagents which may be unfriendly to the environment and hazardous to health. To overcome the problem, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy is considered the […]
Material 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 […]