{"id":65089,"date":"2023-06-29T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T16:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=65089"},"modified":"2023-06-29T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T16:15:50","slug":"65089","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=65089","title":{"rendered":"Beware of 50cl Sprite drink, NAFDAC warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is contaminated Sprite, a popular soft drink, in the market, the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet on Wednesday the agency said: \u201cThe National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is\u00a0notifying the public of a batch of unwholesome Sprite 50cl glass bottles circulating in Nigeria. This product was discovered following a consumer complaint received and investigated by the post-marketing surveillance unit of the Agency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn investigation, at the point of purchase and supplier\u2019s address, over five (5) crates of the implicated batch of Sprite 50cl glass bottles were discovered to be contaminated with particles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe affected batch of the unwholesome product has been sampled for laboratory analysis in the NAFDAC laboratory and the Agency has directed all zonal directors and state coordinators to carry out surveillance and mop up<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_navbar_mobile_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_navbar_mobile jeg_sticky_nav\" data-mode=\"scroll\">\n<div class=\"jeg_mobile_bottombar jeg_mobile_midbar jeg_container normal\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_nav_row\">\n<div class=\"jeg_nav_col jeg_nav_center jeg_nav_grow\">\n<div class=\"item_wrap jeg_nav_aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"jeg_nav_item 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class=\"jeg_meta_container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_post_meta jeg_post_meta_1\">\n<div class=\"meta_left\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_author\">Written by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leadership.ng\/author\/pamela-ephraim\/\">Pamela Ephraim<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_date\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leadership.ng\/nafdac-alerts-nigerians-over-contaminated-soft-drink-bottles\/\">12 hours ago<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta_right\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_bookmark\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_featured featured_image \">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image lazyloaded\" title=\"Nafdac\" src=\"https:\/\/sp-ao.shortpixel.ai\/client\/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_500,h_500\/https:\/\/leadership.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sprite.jpg\" alt=\"Nafdac\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" 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consumer complaint received and investigated by the post-marketing surveillance unit of the Agency.<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC\u2019s investigation revealed that over five crates of the implicated batch (BN: AZ6 22:32) of Sprite 50cl glass bottles with manufacturing date (MFD: 180423) were discovered to be contaminated with particles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5228780540891921\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" data-ad-status=\"filled\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_2_host\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Advertisement\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"aswift_2\" 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Limited (Abuja plant) to recall the implicated batch of the unwholesome product and report to NAFDAC for effective monitoring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is contaminated Sprite, a popular soft drink, in the market, the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned. In a tweet on Wednesday the agency said: \u201cThe National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is\u00a0notifying the public of a batch of unwholesome Sprite 50cl glass bottles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":65093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5774,7],"tags":[6001,1814,6002],"class_list":["post-65089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-food","category-news","tag-contaminated","tag-nafdac","tag-sprite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}