Is Exosomes legal in the United Kingdom?

In 110 people with diabetes foot sores, sores treated with exosomes healed in about 6 weeks, against about 20 weeks without them. What clinics sell is almost never that product. The field even had to write a rulebook, because scientists could not agree on how to describe what they were studying.

Exosomes are tiny bubbles that cells send out to other cells. Each bubble carries proteins and genetic messages.

How it works: Exosomes are very small bubbles, about 30 to 150 nanometres across. Cells build them inside and then push them out.

Approval history: No exosome product is approved by the FDA for any use. The FDA has said publicly that there are no approved exosome products, and it has acted against clinics selling them. So anything sold in a clinic is unapproved, whatever it is called.

Licenses medicines for sale in the UK. A compound without a licence to be sold (a marketing authorisation) is an unlicensed medicine. The law only lets it reach people through a prescriber, under the specials scheme (unlicensed medicines made for one patient's needs). It cannot be sold as a research product.

The legal category above is how The Longevity Archive reads Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency listings for Exosomes on the reviewed date. It is not a legal opinion. Rules change. Bringing a compound into the country, prescribing it and owning it can each be treated differently. Check with the agency before you act on anything here.

Check MHRA directly

Whether Exosomes is banned in sport is set by the World Anti-Doping Code and by military rules, not by its legal status in the United Kingdom. Before you compete or get tested, look up Exosomes by name on the Prohibited List, or look up a named product in Global DRO. Under the World Anti-Doping Code, category S0 bans, at all times, any drug-like substance that meets two tests. No other section of the List covers it. And no government health regulator anywhere has a current approval for it as a treatment in people. Many substances that are approved somewhere are banned by name in another section. So approval does not mean a substance is allowed in sport.

• WADA Prohibited List
• Global DRO (check a named product)
• USADA (US athletes)
• Operation Supplement Safety (US service members)

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