The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has dismissed claims circulating about a purported secret ban on amoxicillin.<\/p>\n
In a statement by NAFDAC Director-General Prof. Moji Shola Adeyeye, she said that the agency has neither secretly nor openly planned a ban on amoxicillin.<\/p>\n
This was in response to a viral social media post claiming that NAFDAC had banned the antibiotic.<\/p>\n
Reacting, NAFDAC described the claim as false and devoid of any factual basis.<\/p>\n
\u201cNAFDAC has not banned amoxicillin in Nigeria, either secretly or openly,\u201d the regulatory agency said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n
It clarified that the agency publicly notifies Nigerians of any regulatory actions through official channels.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn recent months, NAFDAC issued targeted safety alerts on certain brands and batches of amoxicillin. In August 2025, Public Alert No. 24\/2025 announced the recall of Amoxivue (Amoxicillin) 500 mg capsules due to low Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) content. In October 2025, Public Alert No. 34\/2025 addressed substandard batches of Astamocil and Astamentin suspensions, while Public Alert No. 35\/2025 notified the public of substandard batches of Annmox and Jawamox suspensions. These actions were specific to identified products and do not constitute a ban on amoxicillin,\u201d NAFDAC added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has dismissed claims circulating about a purported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[241465,64,63,137,490,34964],"class_list":{"0":"post-473583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-amoxicillin","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-medication","13":"tag-nafdac"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}