WASHINGTON, June 3 -- Drug Enforcement Administration has issued a proposed rule called: Designation of Propionyl Chloride as a List I Chemical.
The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on June 3 by Heather Achbach, Federal Register Liaison Officer, Drug Enforcement Administration.
Summary: The Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing the control of propionyl chloride as a list I chemical under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The Drug Enforcement Administration finds that propionyl chloride is used in the illicit manufacture of the controlled substances fentanyl, fentanyl analogues and fentanyl-related substances, and is important to the manufacture of these substances. In the respective synthetic pathways in which...