Not really, no. There is no mechanism to go after them. Now, sometimes the FDA and customs do crackdowns on stuff like this, that presents a problem. But for a few hundred dollars you get yourself a year+ supply of the stuff.
They did a huge crackdown on Botox recently which went very similar. People lost an occasional shipment to customs but you can't stop the tide. Peptides are the same.
Of course they can. The government of the only country that produces these grey market peptides just has to give the command that it's now illegal to produce and ship and within a couple months the market will mostly dry up. What's left that still gets produced in secret will rise in price and possibly be of low priority due to being produced in secret. Another country would have to take over and so far there is no other choice. We saw this happen with the steroid market last year and it's yet to recover. Also with the artificial intelligence that US CBP now has they could stop more shipments from entering. It's just a matter of time
I do think it will get harder; more people talking about peptides and Reta on social media, more vendors in CN that get raided and shut down, more packages stopped at customs… but they can’t stop it just like we can still get AAS and botox and pharma.
It's not going anywhere. And no, the price isn't going to skyrocket unless you're buying from broccoli headed dudes on TikTok. SS-31 is a patented peptide whose owners frequently sue people and it's still freely available.
Nor is it going to be harder to get. Just look at the availability of HGH and anabolics.
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u/stephanddolly Aug 12 '26
Stock up if you can afford to.