BPC 157: The peptide with big claims and scant evidence STAT The Human Lab Rats Injecting Themselves with Peptides Office for Science and Society McGill University Some peptides are FDA approved drugs. Some are legal supplements. Some are neither. The same word, peptide, covers all three categories. The regulatory status of the specific compound is what determines legality. 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