Approval belongs to a medicine
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) reviews individual medicines for particular uses.
It does not approve doctors’ offices as health care providers.
- Semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) has FDA-approved products.
- Tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) also has FDA-approved products.
- An approved brand name does not give a made-to-order version that same approval.
Compounding has conditions
A compounded medicine is prepared to order. Compounding can meet a medical need, but it does not make every ingredient or copied product lawful.
- Ask why an approved finished medicine cannot meet the specific need.
- Ask the prescriber what makes a preparation made to your order necessary.
- Ask which pharmacy makes it and how to check that pharmacy.
- Do not treat a lower price as the answer to the approval question.
A registration number is a different thing
FDA registration does not establish approval of a facility’s medicines.
National Drug Code is what the letters NDC stand for. It is a code used to list a drug product in an FDA drug list. A medicine can have this listing code without having FDA approval.
- Ask what the number identifies.
- Ask for the approval record for the actual finished medicine.
- Keep the answer separate from the prescriber’s licence check.