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FDA Warning Letter · #665848

Wwwsemaspacecom: FDA Warning Letter (October 2, 2023)

Wwwsemaspacecom received this warning letter on October 2, 2023, from FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). What it cites, and FDA’s own words where we matched them against the letter, are summarized below.

Issued October 2, 2023Status: activeCenter for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)On this register since August 16, 2026
By Ruth Calder · Enforcement Editor
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Primary Source

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https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/wwwsemaspacecom-665848-10022023

Summary

Company
Wwwsemaspacecom
Letter number
#665848
Issue date
October 2, 2023
Subject
Not listed by FDA for this letter

What FDA cited

FDA's letter of October 2, 2023 cites Wwwsemaspacecom for selling products FDA calls unapproved new drugs. The GLP-1 drugs it names: semaglutide.

In FDA’s words:
As discussed below, FDA has observed that www.semaspace.com introduces into interstate commerce unapproved and misbranded semaglutide drug products. … For example, www.semaspace.com offers semaglutide drug products marketed as “Semaglutide 2mg” and “Semaglutide 5mg” for injection. These products are also described as “Generic semaglutide 2mg vial” and “Generic semaglutide 5mg vial,” respectively.

How this letter sits against the other 159

Our reading, from the 160 letters on this register — not part of the FDA’s document.

2 letters on this register carry the date October 2, 2023, so this was a small group action rather than a mass sweep.

A warning letter is the agency putting a company on notice, not a court finding and not a ban. What it is worth to you is in what it alleges, so read the original on fda.gov rather than the fact that one exists.

The FDA calls the “generic” semaglutide this site sells unapproved. For which generics exist: Generic GLP-1s: what exists, and what does not for semaglutide.

FDA’s letter of February 7, 2024 to Helix Chemical Supply also cites its recipient for selling products FDA calls unapproved new drugs.

What FDA warning letters mean

It is the agency writing to a company to say it believes something that company is doing breaks the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act — usually a claim on a website, a labeling choice, or how a drug is being made. The company has about fifteen working days to write back.

Read carefully what it is not. It is not a recall, not a criminal charge, and not a court deciding anyone broke the law. It is the regulator opening a file. Companies frequently answer a letter, fix what was cited, and carry on trading, and when FDA accepts that it can issue a close-out letter. We do not track close-outs, so the presence of a letter on this page tells you what FDA said on one date — not where the matter stands today. Ask the company; they will usually tell you, and how they answer is informative in itself.

Across this market the same three citations recur: claiming a compounded product is equivalent to an approved one, labeling that misleads, and compounding from bulk substances FDA has not cleared under sections 503A and 503B. If you are reading a letter here, it is probably one of those.

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Editorial Disclaimer

This is a public communication from a regulator, and by itself it settles nothing about whether the company broke any law. Corrective action is a common response, and a fair number of letters end in a close-out. Read the whole thing on fda.gov through the link above rather than taking our excerpt as the full picture.

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