DublinIrish police found cocaine soaked into plywood sawdust.

Detection built for powder cannot see a drug dissolved into shampoo, resin or wine.

Traffickers dissolve or impregnate the crystalline salt into liquids and solids, then reconstitute it at destination labs.

EU states dismantled 42 extraction sites in 2024, the EU drugs agency said, up from 34 the year before.

How each outlet framed it
InSight Crime
details dissolution/reconstitution chemistry and concealment methods; frames as Europe's evolution from consumer to processing hub

Sources: InSight Crime