TT No. 450: Oil Palm Phenolics as a Source of Shikimic Acid – An MPOB-MIT Collaboration
The global palm oil industry generates about 85 million tonnes of vegetation liquor annually which are discarded as palm oil mill effluent (POME). Malaysia alone produces about 45 million tonnes of POME. Discharge of the untreated waste from any edible oil process, including for palm oil, is highly polluting and this continues ti be of […]