SciDevNet: In recent weeks, I attended two events that prompted me to start inspecting the labels of cosmetics, detergents and packaged foods in my house. I was looking for evidence of palm oil products, in response to a staggering claim that half of what the average family buys has been touched in some way by palm oil -- everything, it seems, from chocolate and margarine to sauces and soaps.
My search quickly turned up 'sustainable palm fruit oil' in some oatcakes and a palm oil derivative, ethylhexyl palmitate,...