{"id":464162,"date":"2026-02-09T17:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/464162\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:57:09","slug":"nafdac-denies-social-media-rumours-about-amoxicillin-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/464162\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFDAC Denies Social Media Rumours About Amoxicillin Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6989faa5a8ff8.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            NAFDAC has moved to clear the air after social media claims suggested that the antibiotic Amoxicillin has been banned in Nigeria.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The agency called the rumours \u201centirely false,\u201d stressing that while it may issue safety alerts or recall specific substandard batches, there is no nationwide ban on the drug.<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC urged the public and healthcare professionals to ignore misinformation and rely only on verified updates from its official channels.<\/p>\n<p>For accurate guidance on Amoxicillin use and regulation, Nigerians are advised to consult NAFDAC\u2019s full statement on its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAFDAC has moved to clear the air after social media claims suggested that the antibiotic Amoxicillin has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,34829,327,527,84,97342,377,97341,82],"class_list":["post-464162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-conversation","tag-current-affairs","tag-football","tag-health","tag-lets-talk","tag-medication","tag-nigeria-info-fm","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}