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00:08 Palm oil is a very versatile ingredient
00:10 which, thanks to its technological and organoleptic qualities,
00:13 is widely used for baking products, sweets, margarine,
00:17 spreadable creams, ice creams and pastries.
00:19 At the SIGEP, the 45th International Ice Cream and Pastry Shop,
00:24 Artisanal Baking and Coffee in Corso Arimini,
00:26 the Italian Union for Sustainable Palm Oil and ASITOL,
00:30 Italian Association of the Oil and Air Industry,
00:32 organized a meeting to discuss the technological, safety and sustainability aspects of palm oil.
00:39 Today we are here to talk about sustainable palm oil,
00:42 not only in terms of the regulation of the European forestry,
00:49 not only to talk about the Respio certification system and the certification flow,
00:57 but also to talk about all the qualitative and technological characteristics of sustainable palm oil,
01:04 which represent an unequivocal and consolidated advantage in the production of the products represented in this room.
01:12 The value of palm oil in the total production of vegetable oils is 36% compared to 9% of the occupied surface.
01:20 It is estimated that 76 million tons are used in the world per year, of which 1,236,000 are in Italy.
01:28 9% of palm oil is used for cosmetics, 19% for food and 72% for industrial technical uses,
01:37 such as biofuel, energy and chemical uses.
01:40 It is an oil, in addition to being safe from a food point of view,
01:44 because it respects the various law limits that exist at the European level,
01:50 it is also a very versatile oil,
01:52 an oil that is very suitable for use in various industrial applications.
02:00 The food sector, especially the Italian one, is very varied,
02:03 and palm oil is still suitable to meet the needs of various consumers,
02:09 both those who produce ice cream, those who produce pastries,
02:14 or those who produce frozen products such as croissants, etc.
02:19 Mainly it was attacked for commercial reasons,
02:22 by some large groups that thought of attacking market spaces using other oil oils,
02:29 and above all highlighting the label that the product was without palm oil.
02:34 We are against this type of claim, we are in favor of positive claims,
02:38 that is, rather than saying "without palm oil",
02:40 we say "with the alternative that you have chosen to use".
02:43 This is a wrong message to the consumer,
02:46 we must say this and repeat it in all offices.
02:48 After the crisis in Ukraine, the main oil supplier around the world,
02:53 many companies struggled to find raw material,
02:56 so they turned to palm oil again.
02:59 The discussion on the use of this vegetable oil has therefore returned to the present.
03:03 The Italian Union for Sustainable Palm Oil has presented to the CGEP a communication campaign
03:08 to clarify once and for all the role and value of palm oil.
03:12 There has been a lot of fake news and there is a lot of misinformation
03:17 about what sustainable palm oil represents compared to traditional palm oil.
03:22 The adjective "sustainable" represents a huge and concrete advantage
03:28 for biodiversity, environmental sustainability
03:34 and also for the ethical and economic support of smallholders.
03:40 already.
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