Sustainability Science for Food Mass-Market Products

Prioritizing FMCGs for ANRF and BioE3 Policy

• Emphasizes academia-industry partnership and transition to sustainable bio-based industrial models.

• Provides opportunity to revisit impact of new technologies on FMCGs.

Reducing Palm Oil in Soap

• Soap industry heavily relies on palm oil, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss.

• New technologies may replace or reduce palm oil consumption in soaps.

• Synthetic biotechnologies could create artificial fatty acid chains.

• Government and civil society support needed for solution development.

Locally Grown Palm Oil

• Government launched National Mission on Edible Oils-Oil Palm in August 2021.

• Government support through research funding or fiscal incentives encouraged sustainable practices.

Regulatory Support

• Move to reduce palm oil use in soaps requires regulatory support.

• Current soap grades based on fatty material creates false equivalency.