New Delhi, June 4 -- Punjab's Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has revoked the manufacturing licence and product permissions of Jackson Laboratories Pvt Ltd after investigations linked its substandard oxytocin injection to the deaths of five pregnant women at New Medical College Hospital in Kota, Rajasthan in May, according to two officials and documents reviewed by Mint. The investigations found the company had continued manufacturing despite stop-production orders three years ago.

Oxytocin injection is a lifesaving drug and used for augmenting labour and to control postpartum haemorrhage.

The deaths triggered an emergency alert by the Rajasthan's Drugs Controller on 25 May 2026, which led to a high-level joint central and state rai...