FrieslandCampina Kievit commits to be certified on sustainable palm oil

FrieslandCampina Kievit has applied for an audit to be certified according to the rules and regulations of the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

The company made this decision in the context of FrieslandCampinas sustainability policy and hopes to contribute to increasingly sustainable solutions for the production of agrarian raw materials while promoting the conservation of tropical rain forests and biodiversity.

It aims to have the audit completed before end of this year.

Under the RSPO certification, palm oil is to be treated according to one of the three trading systems approved by the RSPO: segregation, mass balance or book and claim.

Social organizations such as Solidaridad and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) were closely involved in preparing these sustainability criteria.

Under the segregation model, the palm oil is guaranteed to originate from approved and certified plantations.

For palm oil plantation owners this means an embargo on deforestation of tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia and expropriation of land.

The processing and transport of this palm oil is also guaranteed to be separated from unsustainably produced oil.