{"id":35121,"date":"2024-06-18T19:02:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T19:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=35121"},"modified":"2024-06-18T19:02:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T19:02:21","slug":"nafdac-warns-against-storing-cooked-food-in-refrigerators-for-over-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/18\/nafdac-warns-against-storing-cooked-food-in-refrigerators-for-over-three-days\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFDAC Warns Against Storing Cooked Food in Refrigerators for Over Three Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has advised Nigerians to avoid storing cooked food in the refrigerator for more than three days due to the risk of contamination by pathogens that can cause foodborne illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, emphasized the importance of maintaining food safety and the role of stakeholders in the food supply chain in mitigating food hazards. Speaking at the 2024 World Food Safety Day with the theme &#8220;Food Safety: Prepare for the Unexpected,&#8221; she highlighted that food safety is a collective responsibility involving producers, regulators, and consumers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Adeyeye cited World Health Organization (WHO) statistics, noting that globally, one in 10 people fall ill and 420,000 die each year from consuming contaminated food, with children under five and vulnerable groups being most affected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She urged all stakeholders to work together to ensure a resilient and robust food safety system, emphasizing that &#8220;food safety is everyone&#8217;s business and a shared responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has advised Nigerians to avoid storing cooked food in the refrigerator for more than three days due to the risk of contamination by pathogens that can cause foodborne illnesses. &nbsp; NAFDAC Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, emphasized the importance of maintaining food safety and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35123,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121\/revisions\/35123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}