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What deserves a closer look?
It is fair to ask for a clear answer. Keep checking when the product, prescriber or pharmacy is hard to name.
What if no prescription is needed?
Under federal law as of September 26, 2026, dispensing a prescription medicine required a valid prescription.
An offer that skips the prescription is a reason to stop and check.
What does research use only tell me?
As of September 26, 2026, FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, warned against research-labelled weight-loss products sold to people with use instructions.
The agency said their unknown quality could make them harmful.
What if a custom medicine is called approved?
Compounded means a medicine is prepared for an individual patient's needs instead of arriving as a finished product from a manufacturer.
As of September 26, 2026, an FDA-approved claim for a compounded drug was false.
The false approval claim is the concern. Compounding can still meet a patient's medical need if an approved drug cannot meet it.
Can the name on a label be false?
As of September 26, 2026, FDA had found false labels on custom semaglutide and tirzepatide products, including names of pharmacies that did not exist.
Ask which pharmacy prepared the medicine and which pharmacy sends it, then check the permit for that business.