Specifically should dajuan china , a city some 200 miles south of beijing, known for manufacturing , pharmaceutical drugs and once a major hub for fentanyl production in may 2019 facing mounting us pressure, china took a major step and banned the production and sale of all known forms of fentanyl, including any variants of the drug. that was a big step that stopped fentanyl. fitting all the powder coming in from china directing the united states. matt donahue worked for the d e, a for more than three decades, retiring last year as its chief of foreign operations . while he says finished, fentanyl is no longer flowing out of china. precursor chemicals. the ingredients to make fentanyl or if you can get to the precursor chemicals, you re going to have less fentanyl. you have less fentanyl. you have less over those deaths using that same approach in recent years, the us levied new sanctions against a handful of chinese chemical manufacturers to combat the
This is ground zero for illicit fentanyl smuggling. we will probably double what we saw last year within the next month or two. that s double the amount of fentanyl seized in all of 2022 just the first four months of this year, but before the fentanyl even reaches the u. s border, you need to know where it s coming from. and for that we start not over there in mexico. but in china specifically should dajuan china , a city some 200 miles south of beijing, known for manufacturing , pharmaceutical drugs and once a major hub for fentanyl production in may 2019 facing mounting us pressure, china took a major step and banned the production and sale of all known forms of fentanyl, including any variants of the drug. that was a big step that stopped fentanyl. fitting all the powder coming in from china directing the united states. matt donahue worked for the d e, a for more than three decades, retiring last year as its chief of foreign operations