{"id":234395,"date":"2026-01-12T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234395\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:03:09","slug":"public-urged-to-return-zinc-picolinate-selenium-products-for-children-urgently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234395\/","title":{"rendered":"Public urged to return zinc picolinate, selenium products for children urgently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority has called on health professionals to stop selling children&#8217;s immune boosters containing selenium and zinc picolinate.<\/p>\n<p>SAHPRA says these products don\u2019t meet Category D complementary medicine regulations, meaning their sale is illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The public is urged to return children\u2019s zinc picolinate and selenium products to pharmacists or suppliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHANNESBURG &#8211; The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority has called on health professionals to stop selling children&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,85,46,543],"class_list":["post-234395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}