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Re:What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing? by BearOso on Monday September 16, 2024 @07:16PM (#41562208)
You mean compounding? They are allowed to dilute to create a specific strength or combine constituents, but they can't actually create stuff from scratch on site any more than you or I can. That would be a laboratory. It's not like you can just buy semaglutide or the derivatives anywhere. It would have to come from the pharmaceutical company.

I looked it up, and I believe what you've heard about ended up just being people offering fake Ozempic.

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Re:What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing? by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:25PM (#41570215)
You're right, I was thinking about compounding pharmacies.

> It's not like you can just buy semaglutide or the derivatives anywhere. It would have to come from the pharmaceutical company.

Pharmaceutical companies don't make those on their own either, they're contracting it off to drug manufacturing plants. The thing I read the other day said that compounding pharmacies order the same stuff from the same factories directly.

EDIT: found the article I read: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-compounding-loophole.

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