{"id":18830,"date":"2024-02-07T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=18830"},"modified":"2024-02-07T10:30:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:30:48","slug":"500-jobs-at-risk-unions-protest-nafdacs-sachet-alcohol-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/07\/500-jobs-at-risk-unions-protest-nafdacs-sachet-alcohol-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"500 Jobs at Risk: Unions Protest NAFDAC&#8217;s Sachet Alcohol Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Distillers and Blenders Association of Nigeria protested at the National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) office in Lagos over the ban on sachet and PET bottles alcohol drinks.<\/p>\n<p>This ban has resulted in job losses for over 500,000 individuals, according to the Food Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association and the National Union of Food Beverages and Tobacco Employees. NAFDAC announced the ban on the importation, manufacture, distribution, sale, and use of alcoholic beverages in sachets, PET, and glass bottles of 200ml and below.<\/p>\n<p>The agency cited concerns about the consumption of these drinks by minors as a reason for the ban. Distillers argue that the ban is causing undue hardship and economic instability, especially given the current economic challenges in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NAFDAC officials have begun enforcing the ban in Osun State, targeting companies producing alcoholic beverages in sachets, PET, and glass bottles of 100ml and below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Distillers and Blenders Association of Nigeria protested at the National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) office in Lagos over the ban on sachet and PET bottles alcohol drinks. This ban has resulted in job losses for over 500,000 individuals, according to the Food Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":18833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-18830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18846,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18830\/revisions\/18846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}