Everyone online is suddenly injecting peptides. But almost nobody understands the scienceor the regulation. The FDA recently shifted several peptides off the Category 2 safety risk list tied to compounding rules. First, that New: An FDA decision to place 19 peptides on the unsafe list was supported by numerous documented safety concerns, former officials said. Even though demand for peptide therapies has exploded since then, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is moving toward allowing compounding pharmacies to produce more than a dozen injectable peptides that were banned because of potentially significant safety risks, the New York FDA takes first step in possible reversal of ban on some peptides The Washington Post Everything You Need to Know About the FDA Peptide Ban