Torrid market for copycat weight loss drugs could be short-lived

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Cheaper versions of Wegovy and Zepbound touted on social media could be fleeting. Copies are legal now because the brand-name drugs are in short supply. But the drugmakers are boosting production.

Off-brand weight loss drugs containing the same active ingredients as Wegovy and Zepbound seem to be everywhere. Ads for the much cheaper alternatives are popping up on Instagram, in the subway and on TV.

Typically, compounded drugs are made for patients who aren’t served by existing FDA-approved medicines. For example, if someone needed a drug but was allergic to its preservative, a compounding pharmacist could prepare a version without that preservative., compounding pharmacies are usually not allowed to prepare what is “essentially a copy” of an existing FDA approved drug. But there’s an exception.

For larger compounding organizations called outsourcing facilities, they wouldn’t be able to make copies anymore. For smaller ones, they wouldn’t be able to make copies more than four times in one month.

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