MPOB News
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Category: No. 47 (November 2003)
A survey on cosmetic products marketed in Malaysia: microbiological aspect
Cosmetic products contain variable amounts of nutrients that support microbial growth. Most contaminants in cosmetic products include bacteria suchas Staphylococcus, Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, Achromobacter andAlcaligenes. Contaminated water is a likely source of organisms found in cosmetic products. Products such as shampoo, hand and body lotion, facial cleanser, shower bath and moisturizer were analysed. In this study, […]
Polymorphic behaviour of blends of palm oil and palm olein with sunflower oil and palm kernel olein as affected by blending and interestification
Palm oil (PO) and palm olein with an iodine value of 60 (POo-I.V.60), were blended with sunflower oil (SFO) and palm kernel olein (PKOo) according to the conventional three-component mixture design. The effects of blending and chemical and enzymatic interesterification on the polymorphic behaviour of the ternary blends of PO/SFO/PKOo and POo-I.V. 60/ SFO / […]
Current status of Malaysian crude palm kernel oil characteristics
A one year crude palm kernel oil survey was conducted from May 1998 to April 1999 to monitor the oil characteristics. Nineteen kernel crushers from all over Malaysia participated in the survey. The mean composition of the major fatty acids was as follows: lauric acid, 47.9%, mystric acid, 16.7%, palmitic acid, 8.5% and oleic acid, […]
Ganoderma versus mycorrhiza
This Basal stem rot (BSR) disease, which has long been recognized as the most annihilating disease of field palms in Southeast Asia, still reigns as the number one killer of oil palms and serves a disastrous blow to palm oil production. With the identification of the causal agent, i.e. Ganoderma boninense, several control measures have […]
The potential of biological management of basal stem rot of oil palm: issues, challenges and constraints
Biological control of basal stem rot of oil palm can be achieved through the use of a highly effective biocontrol strain of Trichoderma spp. The strain must not only have the appropriate mechanisms for biocontrol, such as antibiosis and mycoparasitism, but also a strong competitive ability to displace Ganoderma so as to minimize the pathogen’s […]