FDA Issues Alert on Fake Ozempic—How to Tell If Yours Is Real

Buyer beware. The Food and Drug Administration is warning people to watch out for shipments of counterfeit Ozempic that are currently flooding the market. The FDA and Ozempic manufacturer Novo Nordisk jointly issued an alert about the fakezempic last week. Several hundred units of the counterfeits are thought to have entered the drug supply chain. It’s not clear whether these units present a unique safety risk at this point, but regardless, the FDA is telling patients, pharmacies, and doctors not to use or distribute them if identified. According to the alert, Novo Nordisk first notified the FDA about the counterfeit drugs on April 3, which were distributed outside the company’s authorized supply chain in the U.S. The FDA says it managed to seize some of these drugs on April 9. The products can be identified by a combination of the lot number PAR0362 (an authentic lot) and a serial number starting with the first eight digits 51746517 (not authentic). The counterfeits are specificall ... Read full article.