PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Palm Oil Board has defended participants in the local industry against critics who, he says, seem to liken them to the ranchers of the Wild West.
Even as early as in the 1970s, he said, one could not build a mill without licences from the Palm Oil Registration and Licensing Authority, the Department of Occupational Safety and Health, and the Department of Environment. Millers currently need to comply with 69 laws and regulations administered by various government agencies.
He said this was because plantations and mills could not get MSPO certification without complying with all the laws they are governed by.
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