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- Recently, the Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC) has recommended to ban the use of antibiotics streptomycin and tetracycline.
- Streptomycin has important use for previously treated tuberculosis (TB) patients.
- It is also used in multidrug-resistant TB patients and in certain cases of TB meningitis (brain TB).
- Exposure to antibiotics like Streptomycin can lead to development of antibiotic resistance in humans and animals.
- The CIBRC was set up by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in the year 1970 to regulate the import, manufacture, sale, transport, distribution and use of insecticides.
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