EDIT: here is a statement and what the letter is about https://a4pc.org/2024-06/those-lilly-letters/ Anyone hear about this? I thought as long as there was a shortage compounding is legal, but with tirzepatide and other glp-s it’s a little more complex? Was over at r/peptidediscussion and one of the guys that runs precision Peptides posted this morning that they along with many others have received a cease and desist order from selling tirzepatide as it’s base ingredient has been copyrighted by Lilly. He said many if not all US based suppliers, compound pharmacies, and labs/shops will be getting these letters over the next few weeks. The salt form is safe from the cease and desist since its only ingredient is Tirzepatide that has been freeze dried in a vacuum. Tirzepatide it self can not be copyrighted, so it’s likely some compound pharmacies will switch to the salt form, but public opinion of the salt form is generally negative so it may not be worth the hassle for most places.
I understand they can’t do anything about compound laws, but they have enough money and the lawyers that can challenge that law. I think that’s coming next. The letter states compounding is molecularly same as their one and only FDA approved version. I’m willing to bet the next step is they will purchase from these places if they haven’t already and test their vials and send reports to the FDA to prove their claim that the fda approved pharmacies are changing the molecular structure by the very nature of compounding thus they can not possibly be selling the molecular structure accepted as tirzepatide by the FDA
Not going to happen. But let’s say that was possible, do you realize how long it would take to change the current laws and regulations on that? Long enough that liraglutide will be generic by then.