Gram Peptides — FDA Warning Letter (March 31, 2026)

Summary

Company

Gram Peptides

Letter number

#721806

Issue date

March 31, 2026

Subject

Unapproved New Drugs Sold Over the Internet

Word for word, from the letter of March 31, 2026

This letter is to advise you that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviewed your website at https://grampeptides.com from January to March 2026. The FDA has observed that your website offers “Retatrutide” (also referred to by your firm as “GLP-1-R peptide”) and “Tirzepatide” (also referred to by your firm as “GLP-2 peptide”) and “Bacteriostatic Water for Injection” (hereinafter Gram Peptides products) for sale in the United States. Based on our review, these products are unapproved new drugs under section 505(a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), 21 U.S.C. 355(a). As explained further below, introducing or delivering these products for introduction into interstate commerce violates sections 301(d) and 505(a) of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 331(d) and 355(a).

These products are especially concerning from a public health perspective because injectable drug products can pose risks of serious harm to users. Injectable products are delivered directly into the body, sometimes directly into the bloodstream, and therefore, bypass some of the body’s key defenses against toxins and microorganisms that can lead to serious and life-threatening conditions.

Despite statements on your product labeling marketing your products for “Research Use Only,” and “not intended for human consumption, medical use, or veterinary use,” evidence obtained from your website establishes that your products are intended to be drugs for human use. Your products are drugs as defined by section 201(g)(1) of the FD&C Act 21, U.S.C. 321(g)(1), because they are intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease and/or intended to affect the structure or function of the body.

Examples from your product labeling, including on your website, that provide evidence of the intended use (as defined in 21 CFR 201.128) of these products as drugs include, but may not be limited to, the following:

Retatrutide (also referred to as “GLP-1-R Peptide”)On the webpage https://grampeptides.com/product/retatrutide/:

Tirzepatide (also referred to as “GLP-2 Peptide”)On the webpage https://grampeptides.com/product/tirzepatide/:

Bacteriostatic Water for InjectionYour firm offers “Bacteriostatic Water for Injection” for sale alongside peptide products, which are drugs intended for injection and require reconstitution, including the two above-mentioned GLP products. The sale of these products together demonstrates that you intend for your “Bacteriostatic Water for Injection” to be used in combination for injection. Therefore, your “Bacteriostatic Water for Injection” is a drug.

Your Gram Peptides products are “new drugs” under section 201(p) of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 321(p), because they are not generally recognized as safe and effective (GRASE) for use under the above-described conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in their labeling. With certain exceptions not applicable here, a new drug may not be introduced or delivered for introduction into interstate commerce without an approved application from FDA in effect, as described in section 505(a) of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 355(a). No approved applications pursuant to section 505 of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 355, are in effect for these products. Accordingly, these products are unapproved new drugs. The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of these unapproved new drug products violates sections 301(d) and 505(a) of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 331(d) and 355(a).

Quoted word for word from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. We assert nothing beyond what the agency published, and the full letter is at https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/gram-peptides-721806-03312026

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