India, Oct. 24 -- A former Texas Tech University professor has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for manufacturing and distributing fentanyl, including a pink-colored mixture branded as "pink flamingo", after several women overdosed on drugs supplied by him, the US Department of Justice said on October 23.

Daniel Taylor, 51, a former assistant professor of supply chain management at Texas Tech's Rawls College of Business, pleaded guilty on July 1 to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl. US District Judge James Wesley Hendrix sentenced him to 480 months in prison, the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas said in an official announcement.

Taylor manufactu...