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http://forum.opiophile.org/showthread.php?t=2135-The DEA Southwest Laboratory (Vista, California) recently received
multiple exhibits from a very large-scale clandestine laboratory,
including various tablets (including apparent OC-80 logo
Oxycontin® tablets), a variety of chemicals, and drug manufacturing
recipes. The laboratory (which included a tablet press) was located in
Azuza (a suburb of Los Angeles), and was seized by personnel from
the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and Crime Laboratory (see
Photos 11 and 12). The initial appraisal of this site suggested that
MDMA was being manufactured; however, subsequent laboratory
analyses and a review of the recipes (acquired from the Internet)
confirmed that it was actually producing fentanyl and 3,4-
methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA).
The fentanyl appeared to be synthesized using the Siegfried route,
and was found in both tablet and powder forms. One tablet exhibit
contained 201 round, green tablets bearing the “OC-80�? logo
(total net mass 27.5 grams). These appeared to be distinctly
undersized mimics of legitimate Oxycontin® tablets (which contain
80 milligrams of oxycodone; see Photos 13 and 14); however, analysis
by GC, GC/MS, and IR indicated that these tablets actually contained
1.5 mg of fentanyl hydrochloride. Tablets like these have been seized
throughout the country, and it appears that this lab was a source or
possibly the source (could not be confirmed, because the tablet press,
punches, and dies were not submitted). There were many thousands
of these tablets at the laboratory.
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