Latest Oils & Fats International News

Canadian agri-food cooperative La Coop Fédérée (LCF) has agreed to acquire a 50% stake in its compatriot Ontario-based animal feed producer W-S Feed & Supplies.

In anticipation of future EU legislation, vegetable oils and fats producer Bunge Loders Croklaan (BLC) has converted its entire palm oil food portfolio to have low 3-MCPDE levels.

The US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that certain patents related to krill and krill oil held by Norwegian Aker Biomarine in the country are unpatentable.

A Canadian team of researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) has devised a new method that can turn the fatbergs plaguing the sewers of many major cities into renewable biogas fuel.

Canadian railway operator Canadian Pacific (CP) moved 25.8M tonnes of western Canadian soyabeans, grain, grain products and other non-regulated principal field crops during the 2017/18 crop season.

Canadian grains and oilseeds trader G3 Canada has opened two new grain elevators in the province of Saskatchewan as part of its plan to increase its grain origination network in western Canada.

Global agritrader Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has agreed to purchase various assets of Brazilian agri-food firm Algar Agro, including two oilseed processing facilities, to enhance its position in the Brazilian meal and bottled oils markets.

Canada’s health ministry Health Canada is planning a phase-out of two neonicotinoid herbicides that have been linked to death of aquatic insects and honey bees.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved raw and refined sugar produced from Brazil’s first genetically modified (GM) sugarcane variety as safe, approving it for sale in the USA.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has reportedly given the green light to Adani Wilmar’s bid to purchase the struggling Indian edible oil producer Ruchi Soya.

Expansion of palm oil production in Africa could pose a significant risk to the continent’s already endangered monkeys and apes as their habitats are also prime oil palm cultivation land, a new study finds.