The Palm Oil Responses - Nestle

Nestle have a massive amount of products so I have included a list so you can see what products I am talking about.

Bottled Water
Nestle pure life

Breakfast Cereals
Cheerios
Honey Cheerios
Chocolatey Cheerios
Shredded wheat
Shredded wheat bitesize
Honey Nut Shredded wheat
Shredded wheat summer fruits
Shredded wheat orchard fruits
Clusters
Shreddies
Frosted Shreddies
Coco shreddies
Honey Shreddies
Curiously cinnamon
Almond Oats & more
Nesquik cereal
Cookie crisp
Golden nuggets

Chocolate and Confectionary
Aero
Yorkie
Smarties
Milkybar
Munchies
Crunch
Walnut Whip
Caramac
Lion Bar
Animal Bar
Kit Kat
Blue Riband
Breakaway
Drifter
Toffee Crisp
Rowntree's Randoms
Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles
Rowntree's Randoms Pick and Mix
Rowntree's Sour Pastilles
Rowntree's Fruit Gums
Rowntree's tutty frutties
Rowntree's Jelly Tots
Rowntree's Jelly Aliens
Rowntree's Very Berry Jellies
Polo mints

Coffee
Nescafe Everyday
Nescafe Decaff
Nescafe Cafe Menu
Nescafe Dolce Gusto
Nescafe Super Premium

Dairy Products
Carnation evaporated milk
Carnation sweetened condensed milk
Carnation Caramel
Carnation extra thick cream
Carnation rice pudding

Drinks
Nesquik

Food
Herta frankfurters range
Maggi So juicy range

Petfood
Purina cat and dog foods

As you can see, Nestle are a massive company, with loads of products. Even I was suprised at some of the things on this list. I contacted them about the palm oil use and this is their response.

 Dear Miss Bell

Thank you very much for your email.

Nestlé views the destruction of tropical rainforests and peatlands in the production of ingredients such as palm oil, as one of the most serious environmental issues facing us today.

In 2010, we made a global commitment to ensure our products do not have a deforestation impact and partnered with The Forest Trust (TFT) to establish Responsible Sourcing Guidelines. These guidelines promote traceability and socially and environmentally sound sourcing practices.

Palm oil is an essential ingredient in many of our products. In the UK, we have already achieved our 2015 target to source 100% RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) certified palm oil. Since January 2012, 70% of the palm oil we use in the UK is traceable back to RSPO certified plantations. The remaining 30%, which consists of more complex derivatives of palm oil that are more difficult to trace through the supply chain, is purchased through the GreenPalm programme.

The GreenPalm programme supports the production of sustainable palm oil through a certificate trading scheme, which is designed to tackle the environmental and social problems created by the production of palm oil by rewarding the growers of RSPO certified palm oil.

Palm oil is not a major raw material in our products; we buy only 0.7 per cent of worldwide production. Nevertheless we are fully conscious of our responsibilities in contributing to effective and sustainable solutions.

Thank you again for taking the trouble to contact us. We are grateful for the interest you have shown in our company.

To reply to this email or if you would like further information, please click here: https://www.econsumeraffairs.com/nestleuk/contactusfollowup.htm?F1=004002573A

Yours sincerely





Sue Tomlinson
Contact Centre Executive
Consumer Services