UN Drug Control Board Sounds the Alarm: How Laboratory Equipment Is Flowing Unnoticed Into the Drug Trade

Whether tablet presses, mixers, reaction vessels, or glass flasks: What are everyday tools in the pharmaceutical industry, at universities, or in cosmetics manufacturing also form the technical backbone of illegal drug production. The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has now released a comprehensive global report and warns of massive gaps in the monitoring of this…