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Drug produced, um, a lot by criminal labs (10)

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I believe the answer is:

salbutamol

'drug' is the definition.

'produced um a lot by criminal labs' is the wordplay.
'produced' indicates anagramming the letters.
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'criminal' is an anagram indicator.
'um'+'a'+'lot'='umalot'
'umalot' with letters rearranged gives 'utamol'.
'labs' is an anagram of 'salb'.
'utamol' put after 'salb' is 'SALBUTAMOL'.

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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