Latest Oils & Fats International News

A US-Chinese research team has discovered an unusual seed oil component in an ornamental flower that could lead to the development of more effective lubricants based on renewable plant oils.

The USA and China have once more traded blows in the ongoing trade war, with China retaliating against new US tariffs by imposing duties of its own on a number of US food products, including soyabean oil.

Continuing conversion of Brazil’s Cerrado savannah into farmland is directing deforestation away from the Amazon rainforest but, at the same time, may be fuelling climate change and causing damage to watersheds.

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.