{"id":1387,"date":"2023-05-03T10:58:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2023-05-03T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:58:31","slug":"cancer-scare-indomie-noodles-are-safe-nafdac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2023\/05\/03\/cancer-scare-indomie-noodles-are-safe-nafdac\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Scare : Indomie noodles are safe &#8211; NAFDAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has assured that Indomie Instant Noodles produced in Nigeria are safe.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the Director-General, Prof Mrs Mojisola Adeyeye reacted to circulating information about a purported ban. The agency is probing the reported discovery of a harmful substance in the product after probes by the authorities in two Asian countries.<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC  has registered several local manufacturers and the Indomie noodles have been certified safe for consumption,\u201d Adeyeye noted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NAFDAC did not ban Indomie Instant Noodles produced in Nigeria\u2026The Taiwan and Malaysia noodles have nothing to do with our local producers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cancer-causing ethylene oxide, used to sterilize medical devices and sometimes used as a pesticide, was found in Indomie\u2019s \u201cspecial chicken\u201d flavour in Taiwan and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Dufil Prima Foods Limited has also issued an official position through its Group Communications Manager, Tope Ashiwaju.<\/p>\n<p>The company said its noodles distributed across Nigeria \u201care produced locally under strict international best manufacturing procedures with ISO certified standards\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has assured that Indomie Instant Noodles produced in Nigeria are safe. A statement by the Director-General, Prof Mrs Mojisola Adeyeye reacted to circulating information about a purported ban. The agency is probing the reported discovery of a harmful substance in the product after probes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}