Before paying for a medicine
Medicine offered without a prescription
Federal law is breached when a prescription medicine is dispensed without the required prescription, as of September 2026. The federal prescription requirement
Ask who performs the assessment and issues any prescription. A checkout page does not supply that answer.
Ask and note
Who assesses me before any medicine is supplied?
Made-to-order medicine described as approved
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) calls claims that compounded medicines have FDA approval false or misleading, as of September 2026. FDA on compounding advertisements
Compounding means making a medicine to order. Ask why it is proposed and which pharmacy makes it.
FDA registration means the medicine-making site is entered in the agency’s records. As of September 2026, that entry does not mean the site or its medicine has FDA approval. The FDA-registration rule
A name that cannot be checked
The FDA has found fraudulent compounded weight drugs bearing labels with names of nonexistent pharmacies, as of September 2026. FDA on false pharmacy labels
Ask for the supplying pharmacy’s full name. Open its state licence record and use the contact route on that record to ask about the proposed product.
The FDA’s state-search page supplies links to pharmacy licence databases. Find the official pharmacy record
Pressure about how to pay
The FTC (Federal Trade Commission), which handles US consumer protection, warns as of September 2026 about demands for payment only through bank or wire transfers, gift cards, payment apps or cryptocurrency—a form of digital money. FTC advice on payment demands
Ask for payment terms in writing before sending money.
The FDA also flags prices that appear unrealistically low; a discount by itself does not establish a problem. FDA’s online-pharmacy checklist
Ask and note
Can I check the names, terms and complete bill before paying?