Govt to put antibiotic use in poultry, fish under scanner
New Delhi: Antibiotic shots, being used at will to make chickens fatter or shrimps bigger, will be soon regularized. For the first time, National Policy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance has put a cap on how much antibiotics can be pumped into seafood or poultry products, including shrimps or fish and fishery products. The policy has named common antibiotics like tetracycline