After years of weight loss drug shortages, the FDA is saying there’s now an adequate supply for most medications and they will be prohibiting like-for-like compounded versions.

Compounded GLP-1s have given rise to a cottage industry offering cheaper weight loss medications to many Americans — but now soon they may be unavailable to most.

Consumers who use telehealth or medical spas to get less expensive, compounded weight loss drugs will need to get their medications elsewhere.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it will not take action against compounding pharmacies making copies of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy until a federal court delivers its ruling in a lawsuit against the agency.

Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide diabetes and weight loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, are no longer officially in shortage in the US, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That means that compounding pharmacies and outsourcing facilities that had been legitimately preparing their own versions of the drugs will no longer be permitted to do so.

Compounded versions of popular drugs used for weight loss including Wegovy and Zepbound will soon no longer be available after a decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency has ordered compounding pharmacies to stop making compound versions of GLP-1 drugs now that the drugs are no longer in short supply.