{"id":77533,"date":"2025-10-26T23:02:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77533"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:02:38","slug":"nafdac-launches-strategy-to-eliminate-trans-fat-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/26\/nafdac-launches-strategy-to-eliminate-trans-fat-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFDAC Launches Strategy to Eliminate Trans-Fat in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"304\" data-end=\"539\"><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"304\" data-end=\"539\">\n<p data-start=\"304\" data-end=\"539\">The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has launched a Strategy and Roadmap for Trans-Fatty Acid Regulation aimed at strengthening food safety and protecting public health in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"541\" data-end=\"695\">In a statement on Sunday, NAFDAC\u2019s media consultant Olusayo Akintola described the move as a milestone in the fight against unhealthy dietary risks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"697\" data-end=\"938\">NAFDAC Director-General Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye said the roadmap sets a limit of two grams of industrially produced trans fats per 100 grams of total fat in food products, aligning with World Health Organisation (WHO) standards.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"940\" data-end=\"1086\">Adeyeye noted that Nigeria was recognised by WHO in 2023 as one of seven countries implementing best-practice policies on trans-fat elimination.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1088\" data-end=\"1307\">She added that the roadmap focuses on food reformulation, lab capacity expansion, compliance monitoring, and public education, urging collaboration across government, industry, and civil society to ensure success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has launched a Strategy and Roadmap for Trans-Fatty Acid Regulation aimed at strengthening food safety and protecting public health in Nigeria. In a statement on Sunday, NAFDAC\u2019s media consultant Olusayo Akintola described the move as a milestone in the fight against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77533","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77535,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77533\/revisions\/77535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}