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Drugmaker shut down after black schmutz found in injectable weight-loss drug
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- doctorpangloss 2y agoThe status quo is compounders sell non-autoinjected copies of great medicine at 1/10th the cost. Do you want your cheap drugs to be safer? What would proactive regulation look like? The government can revoke the permission to sell compounded drugs at any time - it did so briefly last month. The risk for many long-term investments is very high. Is that good or bad? What do people want? The crazy thing is that we can have it all, there is more than enough surplus in the system to give directly to consumers.
- _bin_ 2y agoIt’s actually very easy to import a raw peptide from china or wherever and reconstitute it without this happening. Lots of people do it all the time, and my guess is this is something particularly dumb like using plain water. I agree though, more people should just import their own stuff.
- _bin_ 2y agoThis is insane. Just in case you’re not clear on how insane it is, your average roid monkey knows better than to reconstitute a peptide with something other than bac water. I imagine peptides are a little harder - bad temperature stability would make them hard to autoclave - but not “bits of likely mold floating around” hard. For reference, I have some reconstituted peptide that’s been sitting on a shelf for ~6months at this point (honestly probably degraded) but no black stuff. These guys should be shut down and arguably charged with criminal negligence, because it’s simply so egregiously bad.
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- toomuchtodo 2y agoRelated: FDA warns patients, providers not to use Fullerton Wellness compounded drugs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42052459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42052459
- PorterBHall 2y agoFirst time I've ever seen the word "schmutz" in a headline. It refers to a black particulate found inside the compounded drug.