Table 1.

List of all oxytocin samples collected in the course of this study. Assay values which are out of specification are marked by “!”. RSD = relative standard deviation; HC = Health Center; CMST = Central Medical Stores Trust

¹PMPB = Pharmacy, Medicine and Poisons Board of Malawi; for registered medicines, the PMPB registration number is given;²facility number as listed in Additional File 1;³at time of analysis;⁴manufacturing date not stated on packaging; information from the websites of MHRA (http://www.mhra.gov.uk) and HPRA (http://www.hpra.ie/);⁵assay value out of specification, but deviation from the 90% threshold not statistically significant considering the standard deviation of the measurement