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c/compounding·posted 8 days ago by u/sigrid_kaufmann

[Regulatory] state board actions worth reading if you use a compounder

Regulatory

503B. That is the whole post, but I will justify it.

Everything else people worry about in c/coldchain is downstream of it. Titration speed, early fullness, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort 503B out first, and almost nobody does.

I say this having got it wrong for 10 months. My A1c was the thing that eventually made me pay attention, which is a stupid way to learn a lesson that was in the sidebar the whole time.

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u/clara_danquah7 points·8 days ago

Mechanistically the bit that matters is 503A. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.

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u/cold_chromatogram318 points·8 days ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/sigrid_kaufmannOP4 points·7 days ago

Asked 19 compounders about API source. One told me, one dodged, one said they cannot say. The answer is the signal.

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u/liver_enzyme_liz10 points·8 days ago

The 503A pharmacy I used lost their shortage list eligibility. Same day, compounding became illegal. Rules are real.

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u/yannick_barros6 points·7 days ago

API transparency is the question that separates good compounders from sketchy ones

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u/bruno_dumitru6 points·7 days ago

the 503A/503B distinction is load-bearing, do not blur it

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u/quiet_moderatorMOD3 points·7 days ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/nadia_fonseca2 points·6 days ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/step_count_stan1 point·6 days ago·edited

API source questions are on-topic and compounders dodging them is newsworthy

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u/step_therapy_s1 point·6 days ago·edited

API source questions are on-topic and compounders dodging them is newsworthy

Disagree on that part. 96.8% and 96.2% on the same vial is normal.

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u/rina_sobczak4 points·7 days ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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Compounded GLP-1s as a supply route: the 503A/503B distinction, the shortage-list mechanics that made compounding legal and then didn't, state board rules, telehealth prescriber models, and what a compounding pharmacy will and will not tell you about its API source.

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