Quality Improvement: from FFB to PPO

Module 1: Oil Palm Plantations and Palm Oil Mills

Module 2: Palm Oil Refining, Storage & Transport

Module 3: Palm Oil Quality & Safety

Module 4: Panel Discussion

Wednesday, 19 July 2017 (Day 1)
7.30 am – 8.30 am       Registration of participants
Module 1: Oil Palm Plantations and Palm Oil Mills: Embracing Best Practices
Chairperson: Mr MR Chandran
8.45 am – 9.00 am       Welcome Address by President of MOSTA
9.00 am – 9.45 am       Adopting Good Agricultural Best Practices on Plantations

Dr Harikrishna Kulaveerasingam, Sime Darby
9.45 am – 10.30 am      Quality, Food Safety and 3-MCPD in Palm Oil Mill Processing
Mr Ng say bock, Vincent Ng, Process Consultants
10.30 am – 11.15 am   Coffee/Tea Break
11.15 am – 12.00 pm   Best Milling Practices for Higher Oil Quality and Lower Contaminants – Limitations, Pragmatic

Approaches and Challenges
Bapak Antony Bosco, Triputra Agro Persada, Mr Ho CW, Ladang Tai Tak, Mr Lee KH, IHMS, Malaysia
12.00 pm – 12.30 pm Discussion
12.30 pm – 14.00 pm Lunch

Module 2: Crude Palm Oil Refining and Palm Products Storage
Chairperson: Mr Khoo Kiak Kern
14.00 pm – 14.45 pm Adopting Good Palm Oil Refining, Storage and Shipping Practices
En Mohammad Jaaffar Ahmad, Palm Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia
14.45 pm – 15.30 pm Improving CPO Quality in the Palm Oil and Best Practices to Mitigate 3-MCPD in CPO Wet Processing
Dr Frank Shoening, GEA Westfalia Separator Group, Germany
15.30 pm – 16.15 pm New Technologies in Palm Oil Refining to Mitigate Various Contaminants with Special focus to
3-MCPD & GE
Dr. Ir. Marc Kellens, De Smet Ballestra Group, Belgium
16.15 pm – 17.30 pm Discussion
Coffee/Tea Break

Module 3: Palm Oil Quality & Safety
Chairpersons: Mr S. Krishnan & Dr Marc Kellens
9.00 am – 9.45 am     Presence of Contaminants in Crude and Refined Vegetable Oils with Special Focus on
the Solutions to Mitigate the Various Contaminants in Palm Oil
Dr. W. De Greyt, De Smet Ballestra Group, Belgium
9.45 am – 10.30 am   Industrial Challenges and Actions on the Palm Oil Processing Industry to Answer the Current
Food Safety Concerns of the Palm Oil End Users and Current Consumer Groups
Mr Michael Barkhuysen, Sime Darby Hudson & Knight, South Africa
10.30 am – 11.15 am Coffee/Tea Break
11.15 am – 12.00 pm Progress Towards Reducing Contaminants: Setting New Targets for the Industry
Datuk Dr Choo Yuen May, former Director General of MPOB
12.00 pm – 12.45 pm Discussion
12.450 pm – 14.00 pm Lunch