Do the States/FDA now have the juice to come for Grey?

[QueenMuntha]

This post, written by " The Peptide List" , is a bit of histrionic and most likely written to steer eyeballs to his Peptide website, but all that taken into account, it also presents a case genuine concern from me. It does speak the truth. It discusses not only the crackdown on 503B pharmacies, but China sources and mail distribution.

All the Compounding Pharmacy stuff aside, this move by Connecticut to cut off Chinese suppliers is interesting:

The State Lane: Connecticut Closes a Marketplace​
On May 6, 2026, the same morning Novo Nordisk reported its first quarter, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced a settlement with Made-in-China. Made-in-China is an international trade platform that hosts third-party listings for manufacturers, primarily in China, marketing products into the United States and other Western economies. Among the listings, Tong’s office found, were vial-strength bulk semaglutide and tirzepatide and other GLP-1 receptor agonists, marketed as research chemicals or as bulk active pharmaceutical ingredient, with shipping to U.S. addresses available.

The settlement requires Made-in-China to cease all GLP-1 sales to U.S. customers, deploy a monitoring system to detect and remove future listings, and remove any GLP-1 listing within five days of identification. The platform agreed to a $300,000 penalty, suspended after a $30,000 payment, with the suspended balance contingent on compliance.

Worth the read. It is on suspicious-link-removed by "The Peptide List's suspicious-link-removed".

More information from this subReddit post:

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1tb4rbb/prorx_warning_letter_looks_like_prorx_was_telling/

 

[gusterbuster]

Hmm, wonder if the vendors will need to remove GLPs from their price list, and then we ask for pricing for GLPs. That way they arent listed and the forum cant be fined.

 

[lessthanhalf]

Made in China is a pretty large scale e-commerce platform, mainly aimed at wholesale rather than retail customers, so it can be legally targeted in the US. This kind of thing might affect compounders who buy in bulk from china, but most will have established direct chinese contacts by now and not need the platform, or can go through smaller resellers if needed. The profit margins are enormous for them , paying a bit more will make no difference. It is already hard to find GLP's on alibaba or alibaba express. I am sure there are other Chinese ecommerce platforms I do not know about.

Small scale vendors operating by email, discord or telegram are just not attackable by those types of legal interventions by the US, and they are small and very cheap to set up and replace if needed. The only cost to a vendor of being shut down is the loss of an established name and the customer goodwill that came with it, which is not trivial, but restarting the process under a new name is a easy process and costs almost nothing .

If the Chinese government goes after them, that is a different story.

 

[CNCCurrency]

This post, written by " The Peptide List" , is a bit of histrionic and most likely written to steer eyeballs to his Peptide website, but all that taken into account, it also presents a case genuine concern from me. It does speak the truth. It discusses not only the crackdown on 503B pharmacies, but China sources and mail distribution.

All the Compounding Pharmacy stuff aside, this move by Connecticut to cut off Chinese suppliers is interesting:

Worth the read. It is on suspicious-link-removed by "The Peptide List's suspicious-link-removed".

More information from this subReddit post:

ProRx warning letter, looks like ProRx was telling the truth
by
u/TodayAmazing in
tirzepatidecompound

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1tb4rbb/prorx_warning_letter_looks_like_prorx_was_telling/

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How does this apply to grey china?

 

[gusterbuster]

How does this apply to grey china?

I think the implication is that this forum and others like it acts as a platform for GLPs. So they could go after and fine the forums?

 

[birdwhacker]

I think the implication is that this forum and others like it acts as a platform for GLPs. So they could go after and fine the forums?

Of course they could. Luckily our host is smarter than that, and has arranged his web services in such a way as to be anonymous for him and not available to be shut down. I'm sure the servers are hosted in a country with sensible laws.

Obviously much of the content on this forum is illegal. The question is, what are they gonna do about it?

 

[Smiter]

Yes. They can IF the state chooses to. In the drug war, the combat did attack the entire vertical, but the vast majority of action was faced at the end levels- the consumer. If one were to look at it purely as a theoretical exercise, think about all the things the state does NOT allow entry to, be it as outlandish as a nuke, for instance. Now, this means that IF it desires, it can appropriate the resources needed to get the task done. Whether they do it or not is another question.

 

[CMA Pooky]

Yes, since the FDA is owned by Big Pharma, there will be more crackdowns and tougher enforcement coming at some point.

 

[mybodyisasewer]

The question is, what are they gonna do about it?

The WSJ will write another 3 pages of bellyaching.

 

[spanky2026]

Yes, since the FDA is owned by Big Pharma, there will be more crackdowns and tougher enforcement coming at some point.

That's assuming they can keep an FDA director for more than a minute and a half.