Check the offer
Is this exact medicine approved?
A familiar ingredient name can appear in very different kinds of products. Ask what the exact offer is.
An approved product is a specific product.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is called the FDA.
An FDA approval applies to the particular product and stated use that the agency reviewed.
Ask whether it has approved the exact product and the use being discussed.
The medicines with U.S. FDA approval include semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy), as of September 2026.
Keep the ingredient, brand, and form together. An approval claim needs more than an ingredient name.
FDA approval does not cover a medicine prepared to order.
Compounding prepares medicine for a particular order rather than supplying a finished, approved product.
As of September 2026, compounded products do not have FDA approval.
According to the FDA, compounding can address a medical need that cannot be met with an approved product.
Check the reason for compounding →A research label does not establish treatment approval.
As of September 2026, the FDA’s application search found no U.S. approved product for BPC-157 or ipamorelin.
Those are ingredient names that may appear in peptide offers.
The FDA has warned about unapproved weight-loss drugs labelled “for research purposes” yet sold for human use, as of September 2026.
Sources behind this check
Approval belongs to a product. Compounding and research-labelled offers need their own checks.