{"id":79927,"date":"2025-12-10T05:49:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79927"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:49:38","slug":"nafdac-raises-alarm-over-fake-unregistered-edible-oils-in-nigerian-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/10\/nafdac-raises-alarm-over-fake-unregistered-edible-oils-in-nigerian-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFDAC Raises Alarm Over Fake, Unregistered Edible Oils in Nigerian Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has warned Nigerians about the growing circulation of fake, substandard, and unregistered edible oils across markets nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>In a public advisory issued Tuesday via its official X handle (Public Alert No. 039\/2025), the agency said illegally imported and adulterated edible oils are increasingly flooding the country.<\/p>\n<p>The alert followed a market survey report from Lebruni Agro Limited, a certified local producer of soybean and palm kernel oils, whose team uncovered several suspicious brands in circulation.<\/p>\n<p>Products flagged include FINO, PUR, OKI, SUPER DELICIEX, and LA JONIC, allegedly distributed through informal warehouses and unregulated supply networks.<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC said the manufacturers and production processes behind these oils are untraceable, noting that the products are smuggled into the country and openly sold under multiple brand identities.<\/p>\n<p>The agency added that the fake oils have already penetrated major markets in cities including Onitsha, Aba, Owerri, Warri, Enugu, Port Harcourt, Lagos, Kano, Sokoto, Maiduguri, Bauchi, Makurdi, and border communities such as Idiroko.<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC also confirmed that the flagged products carry no verifiable manufacturer details or valid registration numbers and do not exist in its approval database, making them unsafe for consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has warned Nigerians about the growing circulation of fake, substandard, and unregistered edible oils across markets nationwide. In a public advisory issued Tuesday via its official X handle (Public Alert No. 039\/2025), the agency said illegally imported and adulterated edible oils [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79927","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\/79927","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79929,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79927\/revisions\/79929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}