'Huge regret': Iceland switches back to palm oil after Ukraine crisis renders sunflower oil 'unobtainable'

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The palm oil industry has been linked with driving deforestation and habitat loss around the world
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The palm oil industry has been linked with driving deforestation and habitat loss around the world

Managing director Richard Walker blames Ukraine invasion for temporary u-turn, but pledges to go back to using sunflower oil in on-brand products as soon as possible

UK supermarket chain Iceland has been forced to rethink its previous pledge to remove palm oil from all its own-brand products, with the firm claiming the knock-on impacts of Russia's invasion of Ukraine...

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