Is it legal? Peptide status by country
Pick a compound to see what each regulator's own register says about it in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada and Australia, and whether WADA prohibits it in sport. Every answer shows its official source and the date we read it. A register can say whether a licensed product exists; it cannot tell you whether a particular purchase, import or use is lawful where you are. This is not legal advice.
44 compounds, 6 jurisdictions, read between 2026-05-19 and 2026-10-03. 44 cells are marked not verified because the Australian register could not be read. Country pages: United Kingdom, European Union, Germany, France, Netherlands, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, China, Thailand and United Arab Emirates (all countries). Related: the regulatory tracker, the WADA hub and are peptides legal?
What the checker answers, and what it cannot
'Is this peptide legal?' is really several questions: is there an approved or licensed product, can a pharmacy compound it, may it be sold, may it be imported, and may an athlete use it. The checker answers the one that official registers can answer reliably: whether each regulator lists an approved, licensed or authorised product, plus whether WADA prohibits the substance in sport. It covers 44 compounds, the same ones as our regulatory tracker, across six jurisdictions.
It cannot tell you whether a particular purchase, import or use is lawful where you live. Those rules depend on national medicines law, customs rules, prescription requirements and enforcement practice, and they change. A register that lists no product is strong evidence that no lawful medicine exists in that market; it is not, on its own, a statement of what a buyer may do. For that, ask a pharmacist, a doctor or the regulator.
Where each answer comes from
United States. FDA approval status comes from Drugs@FDA and our regulatory tracker, which also records compounding status and the July 2026 compounding-committee review. 15 compounds have an approved product, 4 were approved but every product is discontinued, and 25 have no approval. FDA's compounding safety-risk list explains why many unapproved peptides cannot be compounded.
United Kingdom. The electronic medicines compendium (EMC), the most complete public listing of UK-licensed medicines; the government regulator's own product API was unavailable when we read it. 11 compounds have a listed licensed product. Because the EMC is not exhaustive, the other 33 say 'no licensed product found' rather than 'not licensed'.
European Union. EMA's register of centrally authorised medicines, downloaded on October 3, 2026: 10 compounds are centrally authorised. Medicines authorised only nationally are outside this source, so 'no central authorisation' is not the same as unavailable in every member state.
Canada. Health Canada's Drug Product Database: 10 compounds have a marketed product, 2 have only cancelled ones, and 32 have none.
Australia. The Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods would be the source, but it refused our connections when we read it on October 3, 2026, so all 44 Australian cells say 'not verified'. We will fill them in when the register can be read; until then, check the TGA directly.
Sport. WADA's Prohibited List, as recorded on every encyclopedia entry and in our WADA hub: 18 named as prohibited, 10 caught by a category without being named, 6 unsettled and 10 not listed.
How fresh the answers are
Every cell shows the date we read its source. The page will not build if any cell is more than 180 days old, if a date is missing or in the future, or if a status appears that has no plain-language explanation; those rules are tested against deliberately broken data every time the site is built. Regulatory status can change faster than that, so the date is there for you to judge: if a decision you care about is newer than the read date, the register itself is the authority.
Reading the statuses
Green-edged statuses mean a lawful product exists in that market or that WADA does not list the substance. Red-edged ones mean no authorised product, or prohibition in sport. Amber marks the in-between cases: an approval whose products are discontinued or cancelled, or a WADA status that depends on facts we could not confirm. Grey means we either found nothing in a register that is not exhaustive, or could not read the register at all. Each card repeats, in a sentence, what its status does and does not tell you.
An approved drug is approved as a specific product, made to a specific standard, for specific uses. A 'research use only' vial with the same name is not that product, and its legal status is not the approved drug's. Our article on what research use only means covers that gap, and are peptides legal? walks through the US rules in more detail.
Sources
This explainer describes how the tool works and what its numbers rest on. It is not medical advice and does not recommend any dose or product.