Understand made to order
Preparing a medicine for an individual order is called compounding. It can be prepared by a doctor or pharmacist, or supplied by a medicine-making facility registered with FDA.
Compounded medicines reach sale without prior FDA approval; that status was checked September 26, 2026.
FDA is the US Food and Drug Administration; it does not check each compounded product's quality, benefit or safety before it reaches patients.
FDA is the main agency checking facilities registered with it. State pharmacy boards are the main offices checking ordinary pharmacies.
Ask who prepares and who sends it
Request the pharmacy's exact name and the location used in its licence record. Ask whether another business would handle any part of the preparation.
FDA notes a gap for users of online services: the identity of a compounded medicine's maker, its licensing and its oversight may be unknown to them.
Check with the pharmacy board
A state board of pharmacy is the state office that licenses pharmacies.
FDA links readers to pharmacy licence searches run by the states and advises them to avoid an online pharmacy absent from the relevant state record.
Use the state licence search linked on the reading page. Match the exact pharmacy name and ask the board about an unclear status.
A licence leaves another question open
At the September 26, 2026 check, BPC-157 did not meet the federal legal requirements for raw ingredients used by ordinary pharmacies.
These requirements govern the ingredients permitted in pharmacy preparation; they are not results from laboratory testing. A pharmacy licence does not remove those limits.