Get the pharmacy’s own name
An online treatment offer may leave the maker of its compounded medicine unclear, warns the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In a compounded product, medicine has been mixed or prepared for an order; it is not the drug company’s finished product.
Ask for the pharmacy’s full name and the place where it operates. If the medicine is compounded, also ask who makes it. Keep those answers separate from the name of the service.
Use the public license record
State pharmacy boards oversee pharmacy licensing; physician licensing belongs to separate boards.
FDA’s pharmacy search page links to each state’s online license records.
Most states, as recorded September 26, 2026, also required a local license or permit for pharmacies elsewhere before those pharmacies could ship medicine into the state.
Check the exact name and ask the relevant board about an unclear result. A similar name is not enough.
Treat a match as a starting point
A license record confirms licensing; it does not prove that a particular prescription was dispensed appropriately.
FDA has found false labels on compounded tirzepatide, including labels naming pharmacies that did not make the product or did not exist.
If the label and the written answers do not line up, ask the named pharmacy to explain the mismatch.
Pause at an offer you cannot check
US federal law still prohibited dispensing a prescription medicine unless the prescription was valid, as recorded September 26, 2026.
FDA warns against treatment offers for tirzepatide labeled “not for human consumption” or marked “for research purposes.”
A badge or a convincing page cannot replace the pharmacy check.
Ask whether help is reachable
For online pharmacies, FDA’s checklist calls for a prescription that is valid, plus access to a pharmacist with a license to answer questions.
FDA also cautions that a convincing storefront can hide a problem.
A badge can prompt a question. It does not finish your check.