Senate Health Committee Recommends Bill That Addresses Fentanyl Mail Shipments
The Senate committee in charge of health issues unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that upgrades the capacity of the Food and Drug Administration and CBP to inspect international mail, with the goal of curtailing illicit fentanyl imports. This was one…
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of many planks in the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 (S. 2680), which does not yet have a House companion bill. The bill passed out of committee April 24. The CBP portion of the bill would verify testing equipment at ports of entry is interoperable, upgrade equipment to detect synthetic opioids at international mail facilities, make upgrades to labs that test imports, and make sure more officers and drug detection dogs are added at the agencies. Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said one of the bill’s provisions “clarifies that U.S. Customs and Border Protection is on the flagpole for destroying controlled substances found at the border, and would strengthen FDA’s authority to refuse admission of illegal drugs from bad actors.” The bill would ask the agencies to report on progress on interoperability and information sharing six months after the bill becomes law.