Is Taspoglutide legal in the United States?

A once-a-week GLP-1 shot that lowered average blood sugar (HbA1c) more than exenatide and sitagliptin in large final-stage studies, and was stopped in 2010 anyway. Its maker wrote the reason on the study registry. Too many people quit, mainly because of stomach and gut side effects, and allergic reactions needed a special safety plan. 46 to 49 percent of people made antibodies against the drug.

Taspoglutide is a lab-made copy of human GLP-1. Ipsen developed it (BIM-51077) and licensed it to Roche (R1583) as a weekly shot for type 2 diabetes.

How it works: Taspoglutide switches on the GLP-1 receptor, and in people it did what that drug family does. It lowered average blood sugar (HbA1c) and fasting blood sugar.

Approval history: Never approved. Its final-stage studies were stopped in 2010. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01051011 says the study ended early because many people quit, mostly over stomach and gut side effects, and because of a plan to manage the risk of allergic reactions. We found no application to sell it.

Approves prescription drugs, each for a named use. It also acts against unapproved products, including peptides sold online. Compounding pharmacies, which mix drugs to order, may make some compounds with a prescription. That only applies when the FDA puts the compound in a category of bulk ingredients it allows.

The legal category above is how The Longevity Archive reads U.S. Food and Drug Administration listings for Taspoglutide 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.

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Whether Taspoglutide is banned in sport is set by the World Anti-Doping Code and by military rules, not by its legal status in the United States. Before you compete or get tested, look up Taspoglutide 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.

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