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DECEMBER 16, 2024

GLP-1 ‘Shadow System’ Of Internet Sellers Poses A Major Safety Concern


Originally published by our sister publication Specialty Pharmacy Continuum

By Bruce Buckley

Dozens of unscrupulous web-based sellers of glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists are evading FDA scrutiny and patient safety controls to hawk GLP-1 weight-loss medications outside of the legitimate prescription drug supply chain, according to a new research-based editorial in Annals of Pharmacotherapy.

The paper, by pharmacist researchers from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy in Storrs,