Is cerebrolysin legal in the US?

This site's US legal field for cerebrolysin is not approved. UK: not licensed. Australia: not approved. Canada: not approved. The profile notes it is used by doctors in more than 30 other countries for stroke, dementia, and brain injury. That use abroad is not an FDA approval. The record in people on that page is a 2023 Cochrane review of 1,773 people and the 1,070-patient CASTA study, not a US approval. Sub-national detail is not in this dataset. This FAQ does not invent a state statute. Full record at /compounds/cerebrolysin.

Legal status by country, one page per compound

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