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Why a deluge of Chinese-made drugs is hard to curb


Thousands of Chinese companies are making synthetic opioids and shipping them around the world.

She is one of what international law enforcement agencies estimate could be thousands of online sales representatives, working for illicit Chinese pharmaceutical and chemical companies producing and smuggling illegal laboratory made drugs. The BBC has also seen courier tracking numbers provided by online sales representative in China claiming to have made successful deliveries across the UK. "It is criminal entrepreneurship, but in a legitimate framework which is really unique," says Dr Louise Shelly the director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University, and author of Dark Commerce.

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