Time to start stocking up, for real?

[Retazempic]

Cotton to Bondi: investigate counterfeit drugs from China

 

[Nathanologist]

Give us well priced healthcare and pharmacy and we will slow down on buying t it from other countries.

 

[geoguy78]

What I find amusing is that they only have record of 60 shipments from Sep 2023 to January 2025. I'm going to assume that's major seizures. I've looked through the list that customs publishes and noticed that there weren't that many GLPs on there. I really don't think they are very good at finding GLPs and that we don't need to be panicking.

 

[Nathanologist]

Where there’s a will there will always be a way… I did take advantage of November promos to stock about 6 yrs of Reta tho.

 

[cheaperseeker]

These Brandons and Karens need to chill TF out. The vast majority of us are significantly healthier, thanks to the drugs coming out of "Communist China".

 

[cheaperseeker]

😒 Maybe they should start a war on cars, since around 40,000 Americans die in car accidents every year.

 

[IshimaruKenta]

These motherfuckers can't even do anything that helps the American people, I have zero confidence of them doing anything about this.

 

[AndyPanda]

Cotton to Bondi: investigate counterfeit drugs from China

Pam Bondi doesn’t work for, or answer to senators or attorneys general.

“Counterfeit” is legally a very specific word and not the same thing as our UGL and gray market peptides. “Counterfeit” would be labeled as Ozempic or another trademarked word. I invite people to look at Blacks Law Dictionary.

Senators each send dozens of letters like this a month to appease their financiers, special interest groups and constituents. They have a wide array of topics that will be things like “what are doing to prevent the import of microchips into the US” or “the world is ending from cow flatulence”.

Most important, be careful how much you order at one time. The government will just seize something that comes through the mail and it’s an amount for personal use. If they can articulate that the amount is intended for distribution, you are looking at a much higher amount of malice. This witch hunt has been going on for decades with steroids and India pharmaceuticals.

 

[Mr. Blonde]

Cool. I was wondering when the monthly issue of fear mongering would drop. This is like the peptide version of the National Enquirer.

But instead of big foot, aliens, and celebrity gossip we get DOJ, FBI, and DEA.

 

[Ted R]

Cotton to Bondi: investigate counterfeit drugs from China

I can assure you that isn't on her top priorities, even not her top 1000 priorities.... some Pharma mfr that donates to Cotton put a bug in his ear...

 

[Jellybelly54]

I can assure you that isn't on her top priorities, even not her top 1000 priorities.... some Pharma mfr that donates to Cotton put a bug in his ear...

Cotton is totally bought and paid for as all of them are by big business and special interest. Bunch of war mongers .

 

[MsGizmo]

Cotton to Bondi: investigate counterfeit drugs from China

Look at the history of the US "cracking down" on drugs ... has it ever worked? Bottom line, there is too much money in the market to stop it. Even for the lower prices we are paying. Worse case scenario is that the government makes the process more annoying and it raises the prices.

Take semaglutide for example, it costs about $5 to create a month supply of the retail version and the majority of that cost is the packaging. That number includes a normal profit margin too. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/novo-nordisk-ozempic-can-be-made-for-less-than-5-a-month-study.html The cost of the drug itself is less than $1 per month without all the bells and whistles.

OK, let's look at a Chinese vender price ... $65 from MIX ... that is at least a $55 profit. A kit of Tirz 60mg is $180 and a Reta 50mg is $310. They probably all cost about the same to make. If true, then a kit of each would bring a profit of $170 and $300 respectively. Now let's say there is a US based reseller making an order for 1000 kits of 50mg Reta ... a Chinese vender is going to want that stuff to be delivered come hell or high water. That delivery would be a box that measures less than 14 cubic feet. Visualize a box (or multiple boxes together) that is smaller than a refrigerator and weighs less than 50 pounds. Drug dogs aren't trained to smell it. Losing a shipment would cost $1000 but a successful shipment brings in $300,000. Heck even a successful shipment of lowly sema is $55,000 of profit.

So let's say the average single kit is a profit of $100 ... and we are each buying about 2-3 kits per year ... there are over a million of us just in the US. That alone is a 3 billion dollar per year industry. And I am being very conservative with the numbers. Considering that the average income in China is about $17,000 ... yeah, they aren't going to stop the supply. No matter how much a shithead senator cries about it.