Ozempic underworld: Inside the black market of obesity drugs

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Melissa Lee is a correspondent for CNBC.

Not far from the majestic Rocky Mountains is an ordinary suburban neighborhood, a tree-lined street and a modest light gray home. It’s not the kind of place you’d imagine an investigation into black market Ozempic would lead. But it did. A

purchased was shipped via DHL from an office building in Shijiazhuang, China, about a four-hour drive from Beijing. The package that arrived at ’s request for comment, but a person who identified himself as a company representative told inquired about the Boulder address, it was removed from the company’s website. Counterfeit medication The Ozempic that

a sophisticated fake that was labeled as Mounjaro but that contained a different medication entirely — one for Type 2 diabetes that doesn’t cause weight loss. “It looks to all the world like Mounjaro, comes in a box that’s labeled as Mounjaro,” he said. “And it has pens that are labeled as Mounjaro. But it’s not Mounjaro at all.” Counterfeiters are already trying to cash in on a weight loss drug that the company hasn’t even put on the market yet: retatrutide.

 

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