NTUC FairPrice pulls out all Asia Pulp & Paper products

APP will suffer from the haze fallout.

NTUC FairPrice today revealed the withdrawal of all paper products sourced from Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) following notification from the Singapore Environment Council (SEC) that it has instituted a temporary restriction on the use of the “Singapore Green Label” certification for APP products.

FairPrice carries 14 Housebrand paper products that are certified with the Singapore Green Label. Two of these are Housebrand tissue products sourced from APP through Universal Sovereign, a licensed distributor, while the rest of the products are not affected. In addition, all 16 APP related products from the various brands FairPrice carries have also attained the Singapore Green Label certification.

“We have been proactively monitoring the situation over the past week. We initiated meetings with the various parties concerned when the list of firms including APP, was named by the authorities as suspects for contributing to the haze. As a fair business partner, we reserved taking action pending further information and investigation by the authorities. Our decision to withdraw all APP products is a result of the temporary restriction of their Green Label certification," said Seah Kian Peng, CEO of NTUC FairPrice.

All APP products will be withdrawn with immediate effect from all FairPrice stores by 5pm today.