{"id":58025,"date":"2024-12-14T21:30:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58025"},"modified":"2024-12-14T21:30:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T21:30:28","slug":"nafdac-denies-approval-of-lung-detox-tea-promoting-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/14\/nafdac-denies-approval-of-lung-detox-tea-promoting-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFDAC Denies Approval of Lung Detox Tea Promoting Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has denied approving a product called Lung Detox Tea, which falsely claims to make smoking \u201chealthy.\u201d In a statement on December 14, 2024, NAFDAC\u2019s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, dismissed these claims as misleading and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC clarified it had rejected the product\u2019s application due to a lack of scientific credibility. The denial follows a viral video falsely asserting the agency&#8217;s endorsement of the tea. Prof. Adeyeye urged the public to ignore such misinformation and report suspicious products through official channels.<\/p>\n<p>The agency reaffirmed its commitment to consumer safety, emphasizing that only scientifically validated products gain approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has denied approving a product called Lung Detox Tea, which falsely claims to make smoking \u201chealthy.\u201d In a statement on December 14, 2024, NAFDAC\u2019s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, dismissed these claims as misleading and dangerous. NAFDAC clarified it had rejected the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58025","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\/58025","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58027,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58025\/revisions\/58027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}