{"id":234006,"date":"2025-08-08T20:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/gmo-foods-are-not-bad-for-us-should-be-labelled-nafdac\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T20:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:38:48","slug":"gmo-foods-are-not-bad-for-us-should-be-labelled-nafdac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/gmo-foods-are-not-bad-for-us-should-be-labelled-nafdac\/","title":{"rendered":"GMO Foods Are \u2018Not Bad For Us,\u2019 Should Be Labelled \u2014  NAFDAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GMO Foods Are \u2018Not Bad For Us,\u2019 Should Be Labelled \u2014  NAFDAC<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has intervened in the conversations about genetically modified organisms (GMOs), assuring Nigerians that GMO foods are safe but need proper labelling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGMOs are genetically modified foods when it comes to food, and they are not bad for us. They are not bad for us, depending on what type of foods they are and whether the safety considerations have been taken,\u201d NAFDAC\u2019s Director-General, Mojisola Adeyeye, affirmed on Channels Television\u2019s breakfast show,<em> Sunrise Daily, <\/em>on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyeye, a pharmacist and professor, believes proper labelling of GMO foods by marketers is essential for the consuming public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Biosafety Management Agency\u2014NBMA\u2014is the agency charged with ensuring the safety of foods that have GMOs. We work in collaboration with them,\u201d the NAFDAC chief said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u2018I look at the Label\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GMO Foods Not Bad, Should Be Labelled Appropriately -\u00a0 NAFDAC\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VPewrTE4Ciw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Asked what Nigerians can do to ensure that the food they consume is healthy for them, Adeyeye explained, \u201cI\u2019m a food freak. I want to know what I\u2019m eating is going to give me a good <a href=\"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health <\/a>outcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look at the label. I want to be sure that NAFDAC\u2019s label is on it, or if I\u2019m outside the country\u2014well, I don\u2019t do a lot of shopping now, but before my time in NAFDAC, when I had all the time \u2014 I would look at the label. And it\u2019s supposed to have \u2018genetically modified food\u2019 written on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe work in collaboration with the Biosafety Management Agency. We have an MoU with them. They are mandated to ensure that the foods that have GMOs are of quality, they are safe, and they are efficacious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, when you look at the food on the table in the market\u2014especially grocery stores\u2014 you will see foods labeled organic. You put labels [on foods] that are not organic, and people have the choice to buy which one they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her comment followed concerns among Nigerians about GMO foods in the country, with debates over the quality of items sold in markets across Nigeria making headlines.<\/p>\n<p>While NAFDAC has a role to play in the monitoring and certification of food items consumed in the country, Adeyeye said other agencies at the state level had a part to play in such issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for NAFDAC, we are mandated to ensure that the food that we approve for the market is safe, is of quality, of course, and it is efficacious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that is the reason why the collaboration between us and the NBMA is very solid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout them certifying that they have done their due diligence in their laboratory for desk review or whatever, we cannot approve,\u201d the professor said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the National Biotechnology Research and Development Agency (NBRDA) allayed fears over the safety of GMO foods.<\/p>\n<p>The agency\u2019s Director General, Abdullahi Mustapha, told members of the House of Representatives Press Corps that GMO crops are key to tackling the country\u2019s food challenges and boosting agricultural productivity among others in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn today\u2019s digital age, the distortion of facts has become a major barrier to the acceptance of science,\u201d the NBRDA told the participants who attended a sensitisation workshop in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFalse claims about GMOs have contributed to public skepticism and slowed down the adoption of technologies that can transform lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Food,GMO,Mojisola Adeyeye,NAFDAC,Nigeria<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/08\/07\/gmo-foods-are-not-bad-for-us-should-be-labelled-appropriately-nafdac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GMO Foods Are \u2018Not Bad For Us,\u2019 Should Be Labelled \u2014 NAFDAC \u00a0 The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has intervened in the conversations about genetically modified organisms (GMOs), assuring Nigerians that GMO foods are safe but need proper labelling. \u201cGMOs are genetically modified foods when it comes to food, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[183],"tags":[1103,1380,1381,517,381],"class_list":["post-234006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-food","tag-gmo","tag-mojisola-adeyeye","tag-nafdac","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}