Sime Darby’s Approach for Making Best Quality Palm based Food Ingredients by Controlling Process Contaminants
Dr. Iekje Berg*, Dr. Gema Rodriguez Longurela*, Ralf Pijpers*, Tiong Soon Huat**, David Ross Appleton**, Dr. Gerhard de Ruiter*, Harikrishna AL Kulaveerasingam** 
*Sime Darby R&D Innovation Centre Europe, Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
**Sime Darby Plantation R&D, Carey Island, Malaysia

Sime Darby considers 3-MCPD esters (3-MCPDE) and glycidyl esters (GE) as contaminants which could be present in vegetable oils. Sime Darby has done sustained research on occurrence, formation and removal of 3-MCPDE and GE. During the Euro Fed Lipid Congress 2015 Sime Darby would like to show their approach and present the progress of the research done on formation mechanism and mitigation strategy of these contaminants during processing of palm oil from crude oil to refined oil.