eBay Is Selling a Cornucopia of Russian Peptides

"Take a quick search for peptides on eBay and you'll be knees-deep in a veritable flood of sketchy substances marketed as amino acid products. There are legitimate medical uses for peptides—GLP-1 drugs, for instance—but the stuff getting hawked on eBay requires no prescription and seems to have no regulatory oversight whatsoever."

"For $55 dollars, for example, customers can purchase a box of A-15 Zhenoluten Ovary peptide bioregulator pills, purported to be from the St. Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology. According to the packaging, Zhenoluten is derived from pig and cow intestines. Though Zhenoluten is distributed by a firm called Vita Stream Inc, based in Kirkland, Washington, the substance itself is manufactured by a firm headquartered on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, a street in the Petrogradsky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia."

"None of these, of course, have been tested by the US Food and Drug Administration. Even still, Eremenko's suite of bizarre peptide pills pales in comparison to some of the other substances on offer."

eBay hosts numerous peptide products marketed as amino acid supplements with questionable legitimacy and regulatory oversight. These substances, including Chonluten respiratory regulators, Ovagen liver capsules, and various bioregulator pills, are sold without prescriptions despite lacking FDA testing or approval. Many products originate from Russian manufacturers, such as those distributed by Vita Stream Inc, a company majority-owned by Russian footballer Roman Eremenko. These items are marketed with vague health claims and derived from animal sources like pig and cow intestines. The proliferation of these unvetted injectable and oral peptide products reflects a growing DIY peptide trend, with consumers purchasing substances of murky provenance and unknown safety profiles.

Read at futurism.com