{"id":210871,"date":"2025-10-23T00:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-reps-warn-food-vendors-against-using-embalming-chemicals-to-preserve-frozen-foods\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T00:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:49:58","slug":"nigeria-reps-warn-food-vendors-against-using-embalming-chemicals-to-preserve-frozen-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-reps-warn-food-vendors-against-using-embalming-chemicals-to-preserve-frozen-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Reps Warn Food Vendors Against Using Embalming Chemicals to Preserve Frozen Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the alleged use of toxic and cancer-causing chemicals as preservatives in frozen foods sold in Nigerian markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">This followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by Hon. Deacon Chike Okafor, PhD (APC, Imo), during plenary, titled &#8220;Need to Investigate the Alleged Use of Harmful Chemicals as Preservatives for Frozen Foods in Nigeria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Presenting the motion, Hon. Okafor expressed deep concern over growing public reports that certain substances&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510220549.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the alleged use of toxic and cancer-causing chemicals as preservatives in frozen foods sold in Nigerian markets. This followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by Hon. Deacon Chike Okafor, PhD (APC, Imo), during plenary, titled &#8220;Need to Investigate the Alleged Use of Harmful Chemicals as Preservatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":210872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,15213,52654,5074,15443,23254,257,4687,393,7854,12110,254,9485,12313],"class_list":["post-210871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chemicals","tag-embalming","tag-food","tag-foods","tag-frozen","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-preserve","tag-reps","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vendors","tag-warn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}