Senators Urge China to Curb Flow of Chemicals Used in Fentanyl Production

Bags of heroin, laced with fentanyl, at the office of the New York attorney general in New York, on Sept. 23, 2016. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

On Thursday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) urged Beijing to curb the flow of precursor chemicals into Mexico, which are used by drug cartels to produce fentanyl.

“China is not doing enough to halt the stream of chemicals that Mexican drug cartels use to produce fentanyl, the destructive drug that has supercharged the opioid crisis raging in communities across America,” Whitehouse stated.