How do I know if a compounding pharmacy is legitimate?
A legitimate compounding pharmacy holds a state pharmacy licence you can verify with that state's board of pharmacy, dispenses only against a prescription for a named patient, and will tell you which facility compounded your medication. Any seller that ships without a prescription is not a pharmacy, whatever the website says.
Check the licence yourself
Every state board of pharmacy publishes a licence lookup. Search the pharmacy's name and confirm the licence is active and in good standing. In California that is the Board of Pharmacy's verification tool, and it takes about a minute.
Ask which facility compounded your preparation. A real pharmacy answers that question without hesitation. A reseller changes the subject.
503A and 503B, briefly
A 503A pharmacy compounds for an individual patient against an individual prescription. A 503B outsourcing facility compounds in larger batches, registers with the FDA, and is inspected to stricter manufacturing standards. Both are legitimate; they serve different purposes.
Neither is permitted to sell to you directly without a prescription. If a site offers to ship a compounded injectable after a questionnaire and no examination, treat that as the answer to your question.
The warning signs
No prescription required. No named prescriber. Payment in cryptocurrency. A shipping address overseas. Labels carrying a research disclaimer. Stock photos of vials rather than photographs of what they actually dispense. Any one of these should stop the transaction.
The quieter signal is a seller who will not put a licensed clinician's name on anything. If nobody is willing to be accountable in writing, nobody is accountable.
General information, not medical advice, and not a substitute for seeing a clinician who can assess you. Cryohealthcare Marina del Rey is a wellness practice; our treatments are not medical treatments and do not treat medical disease. We do not sell peptides or prescription medication from this website.
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