Notebook entry
The clearest stops
- It was illegal, as of September 2026, to sell a prescription medicine to someone with no valid prescription.
- Any claim that a compounded medicine was “FDA-approved” was false as of September 2026.
- As of September 2026, offers to mail medicine into the United States from another country were illegal in most circumstances.
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The label does not rescue the sales pitch
FDA warning letters in 2026 said that printing “research use only” on the label did not turn these sales legal.
The chemicals were really being sold for people to inject.
As of September 2026, FDA had come across fake compounded-product labels naming pharmacies that were not real, or that had never made the product.
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The care must include a real health check
As of September 2026, Virginia Board of Medicine guidance said writing a prescription from nothing more than an online questionnaire fell short of acceptable care.
Maybe you cannot learn the pharmacy’s name, or look up the doctor or nurse in the state record. Maybe nobody will say who to call afterwards. Then too much is hidden.
Brief source notes
FDA online pharmacy checklistPlain signs of a safer online pharmacy.
FDA risks of compounded drugsWhy approval and compounding are different ideas.