Oxytocin is given to women during and after childbirth to save their lives from blood loss. But the government is planning to restrict its use as it is illegally given to cattle to increase milk production.
Reason for restriction
In October 2014, the Union Minister of Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi wrote to the health ministry to flag the issue of “loss of livestock in the country” due to the illegal use of oxytocin. It is no secret that the dairy industry uses the drug to increase milk production in cattle. On March 15, 2016, the Himachal Pradesh High Court asked if restricting the manufacture of oxytocin only in public sector companies was feasible. The Drugs Technical Advisory Board, a statutory body constituted under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, recommended that formulations for human use can be restricted to be supplied only to registered hospitals in the public and the private sector to prevent its misuse. At present, oxytocin used by the livestock industry is produced in unlicensed facilities.
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