I get this, but what has fentanyl got to do with AAS?
Does it just so happen that these factories that are getting busted are still producing fentanyl along side AAS, HGH, Peps etc?
Nothing other than one is Schedule II Controlled, illegal drug, and the other is a Schedule III Controlled, illegal drug.
When the policy of the Communist Party is to stop pouring illegal drugs into countries whose trade you rely on and are currently charging hefty, multi billion $ tariffs as a penalty for doing so, the Chinese aren't going to make an exception for any of the ILLEGAL drugs being sold from their territory. They're going to stop them all.
Peptides aren't expressly illegal. They're a grey area. Companies in the US have been selling them for more than a decade , in the daylight, perfectly legally, by being very, very careful to walk the line and portray them as not for human use. rHGH is sort of illegal in the US, but not
like a scheduled drug, and not in many other places.
Peptides and rHGH aren't what's causing the problems China is trying to fix with these crackdowns, scheduled drugs and their precursors are.
Not that it matters. but imo what's triggered all this is the shipping companies getting caught with packs containing AAS, being hit with HUGE fines for trafficking illegal drugs, along with falsified customs paperwork, and ratting out the companies causing them this grief (SSA etc) to the Chinese authorities. These are multi billion dollar companies and have no interest in the profit from the tiny number of packs UGLs ship through them.
It's been pretty obvious from the anecdotal reports here oils and tabs have been getting seized at a higher rate than normal and requiring reships lately. Every one of these seizures is getting a lot of attention from customs now, instead of being blown off. The shipping companies are getting slammed, and shit rolls down hill back to whoever's been slipping them these packs. A very effective strategy CBP had said they were going to use for over a year now.
As far as "big pharma" etc, I thought this would play a part in it too. The FDA announced they would beef up enforcement of GLPs coming through mail processing centers. They would have to be the ones doing because GLPs (and other peptides) are not illegal drugs. CBP can't seize them like AAS. It's the FDA that has to do that based on violation of food and drug regulations rather than being illegal like scheduled drugs (AAS).
To my surprise the FDA hasn't really done much about GLPs coming from China. If I had to guess, I'd say it's because contrary to popular belief, the current admin isn't turning out to be much of a "friend" to big pharma. Quite the opposite in fact. And until they play ball, I think the government. is happy to let compounding pharmacies and Chinese knockoffs keep the pressure on Big Pharma by not becoming their enforcers.