Handout: Illegal ingredients linked to knockoff weight loss drugs pouring in from foreign sources

Compounded versions of GLP-1 injectable treatments for diabetes and obesity have surged in popularity despite a lack the safety and efficacy assurances. The FDA has warned that these knockoff versions sometimes contain illicit semaglutide or tirzepatide—the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in weight loss drugs. Working with George Karavetsos, former director of FDA’s Office of Criminal…

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Handout: What is an Alternative Funding Program?

Some employers are hiring consultants, sometimes called “Alternative Funding Program (AFP) vendors” or
“importation program vendors,” to supply employees and their families with illegally imported and unsafe
medicines.

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Bipartisan Safety Issues: How Many Different Kinds of Black Market Medicines have been Sold in Your State?

Since 2012, the FDA has issued warnings to more than 3,000 doctors, clinics and hospitals about eight different breaches in the U.S. drug supply chain by rogue distributors such as Richards Pharma, Canada Drugs, Medical Device King, Gallant Pharmaceuticals, and TC Medical. These rogue distributors offered 63 different non-FDA approved medicines. Have you or has someone you know taken medicine that these smugglers have sold?

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