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Guidance for users and providers involved in the provision, use, and transfer of synthetic nucleic acids and benchtop equipment that synthesises nucleic acids in the UK.
Border Force becomes the first agency in the world to use specially trained dogs to detect both deadly fentanyl and nitazenes.
Summary of a rapid technology assessment (RTA) looking at synthetic genomics.
Incident planning for potent synthetic opioids arriving into the illicit drug market.
Data from June 2023 to May 2024 on the numbers of deaths associated with potent synthetic opioids in England.
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