{"id":23892,"date":"2026-02-17T18:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/consumers-assured-dairy-products-safe-despite-fmd-outbreak-milk-sa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:38","slug":"consumers-assured-dairy-products-safe-despite-fmd-outbreak-milk-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/consumers-assured-dairy-products-safe-despite-fmd-outbreak-milk-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers assured dairy products safe despite FMD outbreak: Milk SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milk South Africa (SA) has assured customers that dairy products remain safe to consume despite the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>In his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last week, SA President Cyril Ramaphosa classified foot and mouth as a national crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Milk SA has welcomed the President\u2019s declaration saying it will enable the mobilisation of additional government resources and ensures that the disease is addressed more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Milk SA Chief Executive Officer Nico Fouch\u00e9 says although the foot and mouth disease can severely affect the health of dairy cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals and even cause the death of such animals, humans are not susceptible to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>He says the consumption of dairy products such as pasteurised milk, long-life milk, yoghurt, maas, cheese and butter pose no risk of humans being adversely affected by the disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23893,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-23892","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Milk SA has welcomed the President\u2019s declaration saying it will enable the mobilisation of additional government resources.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Milk SA has welcomed the President\u2019s declaration saying it will enable the mobilisation of additional government resources.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26727,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23892\/revisions\/26727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}