NAFDAC's Director-General has clarified that yam, oranges and other farm produce do not fall under the agency's regulatory control, Channels TV reports. The clarification, shared in a video, comes days after former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo recalled in a viral clip how a laboratory test showed that fresh juice his wife squeezed from oranges was unsafe for consumption.
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