Supermarket hulk Iceland has continued to sell own-brand products containing Palm Oil notwithstanding pledging to stop doing so by a finish of 2018.

The tradesman done a guarantee final April, observant direct for a oil was harmful rainforests in Asia.

But Iceland still sells 28 own-brand products with Palm oil or fat, as good as some-more than 600 from other brands.

Iceland pronounced it had “fulfilled” a guarantee and no longer done own-brand products containing palm oil.

It combined that own-brand products still accessible were aged stock, including solidified desserts and solidified fritter products, that “obviously have a longer shelf life than uninformed and cold food lines”.

However, a BBC also found non-frozen perishable products such as angel cakes, prohibited cranky buns and jam tarts – all done with palm oil – accessible to buy online. One product carried a trademark observant it was “new”.

The BBC was also means to squeeze solidified own-brand products containing palm oil in store, nonetheless not uninformed ones.

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Iceland said: “If there is uninformed food on a website that is labelled as still containing palm oil, this is a website emanate and a group are operative fast to resolve.”

It insisted there were no Iceland own-label uninformed equipment accessible that still contained palm oil.

Since a BBC contacted a retailer, a series of products containing palm oil have been noted as “currently unavailable” on a website.

Iceland has spent weeks revelation a business on amicable media that it has achieved that idea while a website states a association is “simply observant no to palm oil”.

In some stores, a animation orangutan featured in a supermarket’s “No palm oil” promotional debate appears during checkouts.

Even before a finish of 2018, Iceland tweeted one patron to say: “There’s no palm oil in a own-brand products.”

It has steady this explain on amicable media mixed times since.

When a BBC put it to Iceland that there was in fact still palm oil in a own-brand products, it pronounced it now approaching there to be no some-more products accessible to buy with palm oil “within a subsequent few weeks”.

What did Iceland promise?

“The Iceland no palm oil oath is that by a finish of 2018, 100 per cent of a supermarket’s possess tag food lines will enclose no palm oil, shortening direct for palm oil by some-more than 500 tonnes per year.”

John Sauven, executive executive of environmental gift Greenpeace UK, said: “If they still have aged batch on their shelves, they need to make that pure to consumers in sequence to do a guarantee they made.”

In November, Iceland attempted to run a Christmas advert – creatively a brief film done by Greenpeace – revelation a story of an orangutan whose home had been broken by deforestation caused by a palm oil trade.

Due to UK legislation surrounding domestic messaging on TV, a advert was never promote – nonetheless a supermarket perceived poignant courtesy and regard from consumers online.

Responding to a news Iceland was still offered products containing palm oil, a orator for consumer organization Ethical Consumer said: “If a aim has been missed, it should now be revised and a association should be pure about how they are traffic with problems they have faced in their supply chain.

“This clarity would have dual certain effects – firstly it would contend patron trust and secondly it could assistance other producers overcome identical difficulties.”

Iceland became a initial UK supermarket to announce a dismissal of palm oil from a products when it done a oath final year.

Why is palm oil controversial?

• Palm oil prolongation is pronounced to have been obliged for about 8% of a world’s deforestation between 1990 and 2008
• Burning vast areas of forests to pure areas where oil palms can be grown has also been blamed for high levels of atmosphere wickedness in South East Asia
• Palm oil is used in roughly half a products stocked by UK supermarkets and can be found in all from shampoos to biscuits, as good as biofuels
• Some experts contend eating palm oil is diseased since it is high in jam-packed fat
• EU labelling laws were altered in 2014 so products contingency now state privately if they enclose palm oil