{"id":87546,"date":"2026-04-30T17:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/fda-wants-to-exclude-weight-loss-drugs-from-a-compounding-list\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:31:41","slug":"fda-wants-to-exclude-weight-loss-drugs-from-a-compounding-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/fda-wants-to-exclude-weight-loss-drugs-from-a-compounding-list\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA wants to exclude weight loss drugs from a compounding list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration has proposed excluding the active ingredients in wildly popular obesity and diabetes drugs from a list of substances that can be used for making certain compounded versions.<\/p>\n<p>The agency determined there is no \u201cclinical need\u201d to allow large compounding facilities to make large quantities of medicines from semaglutide, the ingredient in Novo Nordisk\u2019s Wegovy weight loss and Ozempic diabetes treatments, as well as tirzepatide, the ingredient in Eli Lilly\u2019s Mounjaro diabetes drug and Zepbound obesity medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The decision singled out these compounders, which are known as 503B facilities in regulatory parlance, after growing controversy over their role in making weight loss treatments available over the past few years. 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