Two individuals have been charged in Canada after they were arrested for alleged possession of 8 kg of fentanyl, potentially amounting to millions of doses.
US prosecution accused two Surat-based firms of shipping fentanyl precursors, mislabelling them as Vitamin C.
Fentanyl is A highly addictive synthetic opioid.
It is also considered approximately 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
In 2019, China classified fentanyl as a controlled narcotic and later added some of the chemicals used to make it to the list.